[dgb23]

The article is quite aggressive. I think that comes from a general frustration that I share with the author.

It feels like people (in power) increasingly get away with bullshit. Whether it‘s straight up dishonesty, groupthink or ideological, is besides the point. The bigger issue is that it repeatedly drags down discourse and makes it way too hard to solve problems.

And we have problems. We‘re facing some of the greatest challenges humans have ever faced. But we continously have to fight self-imposed distractions.

[hansmayer]

> The article is quite aggressive. I think that comes from a general frustration that I share with the author.

Honestly, it's quite refreshing to see some honest reporting beginning to surface in the general media. And the problem is, this sort of getting away with bullshit then trickles down and sort of impacts the society as a whole, as the lower echelons begin to emulate such behaviour.

[bagacrap]

Rather than getting away with it, people gain power through bullshit.

Sam seems to model himself after Elon, the most effective bs artist out there (even if you or I don't fall for it, humanity collectively has decided to hand him the greatest amount of capital for a pretty modest amount of actual economic impact).