it doesn’t surprise me. most people are incredibly petty and bitter towards other people who have slightly more or less than them. and it only ever seems to get worse. they only want themselves to get more, and want everyone else to get less.
and if you say you are for broad-based economic growth, people just straight up hate you. it’s socially unacceptable to desire this. you have to want others to suffer.
i have worked in public policy for 5 years after college. the one thing i learned, is EVERYONE hates fair economics and good economic policy, because they feel it’s only ‘really fair’ if they are winning and other people are losing.
you have to remember, the vast majority of people operate purely on personal feelings. that includes the wealthy and elite-educated who think they are ‘above’ the rest of the population.
Yeah, for real. It’s like kids fighting over a giant bag of candy and they rip the bag open and spill it all so no one gets any. They could have shared and everyone would have been happy and content and had candy to spare, but now no one gets any. Meanwhile the wealth hoarders have countless billion more bags of candy EACH and have it all locked away in warehouses and being traded around. Meanwhile now the 2 kids have no candy at all and are hungry and angry at each other and neither wants to address the fact that the 3rd kid has billions of bags hidden away from them when all 3 kids have the EXACT SAME RIGHT AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF EFFORT INTO THE SYSTEM TO EARN THE CANDY!!!
And yet people keep voting against more candy for everyone and give all the candy to the one fat kid with diabetes that isn’t even working to earn the candy anymore.
it doesn’t surprise me. most people are incredibly petty and bitter towards other people who have slightly more or less than them. and it only ever seems to get worse. they only want themselves to get more, and want everyone else to get less.
and if you say you are for broad-based economic growth, people just straight up hate you. it’s socially unacceptable to desire this. you have to want others to suffer.
i have worked in public policy for 5 years after college. the one thing i learned, is EVERYONE hates fair economics and good economic policy, because they feel it’s only ‘really fair’ if they are winning and other people are losing.
you have to remember, the vast majority of people operate purely on personal feelings. that includes the wealthy and elite-educated who think they are ‘above’ the rest of the population.
Yeah, for real. It’s like kids fighting over a giant bag of candy and they rip the bag open and spill it all so no one gets any. They could have shared and everyone would have been happy and content and had candy to spare, but now no one gets any. Meanwhile the wealth hoarders have countless billion more bags of candy EACH and have it all locked away in warehouses and being traded around. Meanwhile now the 2 kids have no candy at all and are hungry and angry at each other and neither wants to address the fact that the 3rd kid has billions of bags hidden away from them when all 3 kids have the EXACT SAME RIGHT AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF EFFORT INTO THE SYSTEM TO EARN THE CANDY!!!
And yet people keep voting against more candy for everyone and give all the candy to the one fat kid with diabetes that isn’t even working to earn the candy anymore.
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!