A big reason people who believe “government should be run like a business” are deeply stupid is that corporations view employees as fungible, disposable widgets. Citizens aren’t widgets. - ThreadSky

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dlbowman76.com • 2 days ago

A big reason people who believe “government should be run like a business” are deeply stupid is that corporations view employees as fungible, disposable widgets.

Citizens aren’t widgets.

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fizbin.bsky.social•2 days ago

No, that's a big reason that *that idea* is deeply stupid. That the people who believe that idea are themselves stupid may be a contributing factor to why they believe it, but the reasons some people are stupid enough to believe that idea remain obscure.

dlbowman76.com•2 days ago

This feels a bit like hair-splitting to me. If someone unshakably believes in something that is demonstrably false, well that's pretty stupid.

fizbin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Using this belief as evidence for their stupidity ("we know he's stood because he believes... etc") is fine.

However, "reasons people ... are stupid..." is about how the people got to be this way, not why what they believe is very wrong.

dlbowman76.com•2 days ago

I do think that a combination of propaganda and innate confirmation bias can be a strong contributing factor to making people stupidly, stubbornly believe in things that are wrong.

lenehneh.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope you’ll need to mute this thread too.

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