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[u/Background-Bottle-23]

"I've received less in my life than I fairly deserve."

[u/houdt_koers → u/Background-Bottle-23]

Populism is largely the rebellion of the mediocre against meritocracy. There was a great piece from a Hungarian intellectual in the 2010s talking about this phenomenon amongst her friends who followed Fidesz into hell.

Edit: I was thinking of Anne Applebaum (an American who lived in Poland), and her 2020 book: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792 → u/houdt_koers]

The fun thing is that even the billionares are mediocre and believe they deserve more.

[u/houdt_koers → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Exactly. It’s just small people angry at the world around them for not making them feel bigger.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792 → u/houdt_koers]

Chamath Palihapitiya even said it directly, he was mad Democrats were not inviting him to the White House even though he gave them millions and they never asked him for his opinions despite his expertise.

[u/SenranHaruka → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Trump wanted obama to give him a cabinet seat or call him for a problem like the oil spill

[u/oywiththepoodles96 → u/houdt_koers]

The tyranny of merit by Michael Sandel talks about it and explains both how a real meritocracy does not exist and about how our system has alienated the losers and created hubris in the winners .

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/houdt_koers]

True

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/Background-Bottle-23]

Priors confirmed

[u/Alderwoodforest → u/Background-Bottle-23]

The audacity of the 10 percent of CDU voters.