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1 year agoThe easiest way to make an ignorant person feel special is to identify an “other” for the ignorant person to look down on/blame for their problems.
- Manufacture a scapegoat
- Charismatic speaker blames the scapegoat
- Get power/money
Oldest trick in the oldest of books.
My bootstraps broke when I pulled them harder.
Turns out the local company that made bootstraps for 125 years was bought out by a hedge fund, which promptly fired all of the workers and subcontracted manufacturing to a company in Sri Lanka who could make them much cheaper by using inferior materials and by paying the Sri Lankan workers in 6 months what a fired local worker made in a day.
Ironically, the hedge fund CEO with the MBA he received as a legacy admission to Cornell only wears slippers because fuck you, I’m the boss.