I don't understand the endgame here. Turning everyone into dummies helps them stay in power but who is going to do the work in a "knowledge economy"? An imported H1B wage-slave class? AI? What the fuck do you do with all the people in the meantime? None of this makes any sense
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jamelle
we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
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Aristocratic countries are overwhelmingly poor and stagnant, but they don't mind as long as their "good blood" card never declines.