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as much as I want to believe that will happen, if this election cycle has taught me anything, it's that you can be the most abhorrent individual on the face of the planet and the universe will reward you for it. People will cheer you on for it.
You know why most fictional stories have happy endings? Because reality is much more depressing. In most movies, books, TV shows -- the good guys win, the bad guys lose, protag gets the girl, so on and so forth. Some stories subvert this, but most don't -- because they are escapism from the crushing reality of, well, reality.
As it stands, I am quite confident that Elon will live to a ripe old age, along with every other abhorrent piece of shit in the world, while the good die young. The proles will be made to fight against each other over culture, race, religion, and eventually access to clean water and food due to climate change; while the people responsible will sit comfortably by and watch with mild amusement. And as much as I want to believe that will change, it probably won't.
Welcome to the meat grinder. We're the meat.
It's sort of ridiculous how the worst people rise to the top in all areas, whether that's politics, business or entertainment. Sometimes it just feels like the rest of us are just being held hostage by a small minority of sociopaths.
It's not ridiculous. It's that sociopaths are happy to crush other people underfoot to get what they want, and good people aren't. And thus, they get ahead. It is just that simple.
Exactly this. Capitalism rewards sociopathy
You're all correct for sure!
It might not even be that our society rewards sociopathy directly even, but they have an advantage in a competitive arena, because they're constantly scheming ways to exploit their fellows. Healthy people simply aren't constantly dreaming of how to rob and ruin their neighbors.
It's just like when various anarchist societies would rise up and be off to a good start, but ultimately get steamrolled by their jerk neighbors because they had higher minded priorities than conquest and violence.
The good and decent seem to inherently be at a disadvantage, as we must struggle to maintain our humanity while defending against those who see it as an exploitable design flaw.
"The weak are meat and the strong do eat"
I think historically we've seen good triumph over evil more often than not, but evil prevails for quite some time before good gets the gumption to tear it down.