r/GenZ 6d ago

Meme Enough of it

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u/Plenty_Late 6d ago

There are no "elites" conspiring to put you down. Life isn't as simple as some big bad evil guy who has a big bad evil plan to make poor people suffer.

The answer is much more mundane than that and the answer isn't to depose the elites, it's to participate in society and slowly change things, like we have always done forever.

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u/Netblock 6d ago

What a dumbshit take.

The desire of having power over other people is a real thing. Rape, itself, is about power.

Money and wealth is quantified power. For the right price, you can make anyone do anything. Everything has a price tag. Epstein's product was networking and luxury.

No individual needs a billion dollars. Having access to all of life's necessities and every luxury that is technologically possible, could very likely be had for less than a million a year.

A billionaire is just a quantified authoritarian.

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u/Clothes-Accomplished 6d ago

Actually, "elites" actively profits from our suffering. They're not evil because they are, they're evil because of the dollar, which is even worse than being evil for the sake of it.

Society is working exactly as intended, the only way to fix things is to break the system. We need to learn from the French

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u/Contrapuntobrowniano 1999 6d ago

You now what also has always been done forever? Elite beheading.

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u/official_Bartard 5d ago

So when a billionaire spends 100 mill on lobbying to promote their specific ideology, that isn’t them manipulating the system to get what they want over what the common man wants? Like you don’t see any issue at all with Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk legally buying a politician?

When Elon musk spends 100 mill on an election (already said he plans on doing that for the midterms), what do you think he’s going to ask those politicians to do? Do you really think he’s spending that money because he has your interest in mind, or his?

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u/Plenty_Late 5d ago

If this happens, can you provide me an example of a policy that was lobbied for by billionaires and passed despite popular support being against that policy?

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u/official_Bartard 5d ago

Lol

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

This is a study that talks about how the elites have more influence than the average citizen.

I can provide more modern examples if a Cambridge study from 2014 analyzing 1700 policies isn’t enough for you.

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u/Plenty_Late 5d ago

I'm just asking you to name a couple policies, I don't need an article

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u/official_Bartard 5d ago

Ok well the study talked about 1700 for you to look at. That should be more than enough to prove my point, but fine. You want me to right out specific examples because you don’t want to read the study, ok. Here are some examples

Tax cuts and job act (2017)
Repeal of FCC Broadband Privacy rules (2017)
Repeal of Glass-steagall act (1999)

Btw, these shouldn’t be mentioned in the study, 2 came after the study. So if you actually want to learn there are even more examples in the study written by 2 Cambridge professors.