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by 8jef 1055 days ago
It's nice to have choices.

In a country where every individual have to evaluate and negotiate almost all of its many daily economic choices, results end up benefiting the wealthy and powerful, to the detriment of others, in everything economically related. Which leads to poor choices for and by the masses (like dollar store groceries). More choices in everything leads to poor choices for almost everyone. Think societal cancer.

In countries where some to many economic choices are planned and decided for most (if not all) people, results end up benefiting most people. Then wealthy people makes less money, but are still wealthy, and everyone seems healthier.

Folks, you have to realize that the wealthy and powerful in this world are really _too clever by half_ [0]. They seek to expand infinitely, while plunging everyone into the abyss of sickness and despair through cleverly devised marketing and propaganda. The end game is the end of everything.

Can we do better? Yes we can. How? Simple, glad you asked. Stop making choices out of jealousy and envy. Start trashing your culture and religion, all of it. Go back to Imagine (the genius song) and do the text of it. Do that. Now, like right now.

[0] https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/