Is it really reasonable to think that everything we see on the news around the world is just the result of few deranged political leaders who follow just short-term agendas.

This happen because Putin is just a megalomaniac who wants to conquer new territories.

This happen because Netanyahu is just an extremist who wants to destroy all Palestinian.

This happen because Trump is just a glorified con man who want power and money.

What about the powers behind those people?

What about the long-term interest?

Are they really just ignoring the future global crisis?

For example: Trump wants to control the US narrative and turn the global warming into a fluke, a scam.

But what are really thinking the powers behind him? Could they just be so naive of their own long termn interests?? Or they actually want the things to change.

I mean, it is quite expensive to keep the power in a democracy. All those “free things” to control: the market, the news, the education, that damn free speech… the human rights.

And let me be clear:

We are ’ NOT ’ immune to propaganda.

You ’ WANT’ to think they are just idiots. A bunch of greedy pigs with no plans. It’s easy to think that way. It’s… comfortable.

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
    8·
    6 hours ago

    Honestly, this thought has been hanging in the back of my brain for a while. As soon as I had a little money, I asked myself how to maximize my protection against climate change. (I am still mulling over it) So I would expect billionaires to really care about it, at least for their own personal wellness. But that’s not how it seems. It looks like they are warring over the same old resources, not noticing how the world of tomorrow is going to be drastically different from the world of today. Or maybe they are setting up personal guerrilla groups to defend themselves? I’m lost

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    Your problem is you’re thinking of them as one united group cooperating for what is best for all of them long-term…

    If billionaires could think like that, they wouldn’t be billionaires.

    We need to start acknowledging that its mental illness to put wealth above everything else to the level of becoming a billionaire.

    None of them are in their right minds, and they view everyone around them as competition. They’ll burn the whole planet down if it makes them think it’ll increase their net worth and move them up the list, if it it results in a lower quality of life for themselves, that’s not their motivation.

    If they wanted a better life they’d retire and enjoy their hoarded wealth, but they literally can’t stop hoarding because it’s a mental illness.

    • zout@fedia.io
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Billionaires can only exist in a large group of people. I think if a chimpansee (or any other ape) would decide to hoard all the resources of his group for himself, the rest would gang up on him and beat him to either submission or death.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      7 hours ago

      they view everyone around them as competition

      I agree with everything except that part.

      They view their fellow billionaires as competition. But the rest of us, they view as a generic metric called labour. We’re not competition to them, we’re a resource that is to be used, managed and minimized in order to increase their own wealth.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Bruh…

        they view everyone around them as competition

        How often do you think billionaires interact with an average American who isn’t an employee?

        Like. They probably don’t even interact with employees of companies, they have personal shoppers and assistants who act as a buffer.

        You think Warren Buffet or Elmo talk to random ass people at Starbucks?

        Theyre never within arms reach of a normal person.

        We’re not labor to them, we’re not a resource, we’re an abject concept they literally just don’t think about. We don’t exist to them as individuals.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    It’s totally reasonable to think that they are blind to the problem.

    Look at the run up to WW1. The European generals had studied the US Civil War and knew what large scale battles would look like.

    But in the end it doesn’t matter if they are acting out of blindness or insanity.

    The result is the same.