I do not understand how every professional historian, every lawyer, and every political scientist on the internet can be screaming at the top of their lungs that American democracy is close to being a smoldering heap, and self-satisfied business bros can assume they’re smarter than them all
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Money=everything.
More money=more power & good traits.
Money=measuring system of what/who is of value.
Those folks are not super rich. So their views no matter how it was developed & what it is based on holds no value.
I have seen this process happen in the minds of business men often
— The Fall, Reflections
Hustle culture of the future
The prosperity gospel people are a new wrinkle. If you have money, it is because God loves you. Money=Godliness.
I do think that if things go sideways, some of those finance bros are going to flip on Trump hard. There is no enemy like a former believer who lost their faith.
anti-intellectualism, on the other hand, is thriving there.
do they benefit from democracy's fall?
The broligarchs can’t say that; they can use the words (eg “I can’t understand why people are so upset about some cuts…”) but that is a criticism, a dismissal.
Actually professing lack of knowledge or understanding or certainty… they cannot do
This is a quote from a literal billionaire family of techies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump
Knowledge, training, even experience are nothing when "bros" are "killers."