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17 sats \ 6 replies \ @kenn_b OP 2 Sep \ parent \ on: Please help me understand Trump bitcoin
hmm, interesting, so break it all down and build it back up kind of approach. This I can get behind. Well said.
Jokes aside. I think that the saying that politicians are a mirror of the society explains this quite well.
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George Carlin had said once that people... despise politicians. And yet politicians come from the society. They are us, literally, they come from us. We critique politicians and yet in some ways they are a reflection of society.
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That’s silly. In this system of miss-aligned incentives bad actors and rent seekers get to the top. They aren’t “us” they are the worst of us.
If political positions were purely voluntary and the people filling had to relinquish economic rights do you think we’d see the same type of people assuming those roles? Absolutely not.
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Politicians still come from us. They don't come from the moon or from the stars... they come from society and, at least to an extent, are a reflection of it.
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Power corrupts
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100%
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