• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    The people technologically competent enough to pull it off are usually not stupid enough to want to pull it off and make their lives harder.

    They also generally make more money not working for the government.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      That’s just not true. People (including competent enough) are well willing to make the society worse for everyone if they are going to be gentry. That’s been this way for all of human history, thinking otherwise is that new thing of the 90s, when American exceptionalism has been expanded into “post-Cold-War globalist” world exceptionalism, similarly to how Judaism expanded into Christianity.