• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 hours ago

        I’ve been of the opinion that it hasn’t been accidental for a while now. No hate against poly, and I’m not entirely sure for what purpose.

        Maybe they want less introspective and intelligent people having kids (because they realize they can’t afford them instead of just having them on accident), so the next generation is more easily led?

        I dunno.

        • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 hours ago

          The plan is making money and gaining power, everything else is just a side effect. Despite how concentrated wealth is, it’s still too decentralized to have unified plans. The closest you’ll see is the rich and powerful mostly independently coming up with the same ideas, usually just whatever leads to more wealth and power.

          At the end of the day they’re, like us, also driven by the systems we find ourselves in, just in a better position than us.

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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          7 hours ago

          I think they just want line to go up and can’t hold themselves back from trying to take everything they can. The current generation are wealth addicts with no self control who are incapable of enacting long term plans. They are so out of touch and lack so much perspective that they can’t even comprehend their own ineptitude.

          Capitalists want high fertility rates so the price of labor is kept low, but they don’t want to fundamentally change things to make it happen. They invest heavily in conservatism and anti-intellectualism because it’s easy, but not only are the results lackluster, the costs are too high. Countries that haven’t gutted public education and social services have a distinct advantage over those that let private interests make every decision, as oligarchs make poor public planners.

          In the long run, the rich will not only cause the downfall of wealthy empires like the US, but cause a surge in nationalism and an end to free trade. Even if they move as much wealth as possible to their next target country, they are creating a world where they are no longer as dominant because nationalistic governments will once again taken center stage. They will never have a better deal than neoliberalism, and as that very ideology destabilizes the liberal world order, they’ll lose many privileges they take for granted.