Gregory's Server
@Some_Emo_Chick I've been thinking about this quite a bit.
Hypothesis: a social system truly breaks not when it only serves a minority of the people, but when it actually serves nobody. Perhaps this is just splitting hairs on definition. But I think about how $60,000 is such a pittance for the CEOs who, like, care about being singled out for quality crosshairs time. How a lot of them could basically pocket-change that, they wouldn't even have to crowd-fund it. But how they won't because the rules don't say this person deserves paid. And so the rules are serving the best interest of neither the 99% nor the 1%.
Monarchy failed the people of France, but it also failed the monarchs ultimately. They didn't get to win either. And the man who invented the guillotine was killed by the guillotine.
@mark @Some_Emo_Chick I think about THIS a lot, because I used to work for very wealthy people, and I cannot begin to frame how miserable and even scared a lot of them were. They might not be getting the thickly-smeared end of the stick, but the whole stick seems to be coated in a nonzero layer of shit.
People with more wealth than ten lifetime careers generate, choosing to chase *more money* rather than anything else with their lives, are already sick. Society not only permits but hails this?