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by hughprime 6139 days ago
Advice: this comment would seem far less aggressive, yet have its meaning unchanged, if you removed the words "have been trained to" before "believe".
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The problem is, I do believe it's training. There are large vested interest with absolute gobs of money who don't want folks to believe that resources are not infinite. Because if we did believe resources were finite, we'd change our behavior quite a lot -- thus resulting in loss of profit.

These people have, using the media and effective control of government (the US's is basically an arm of Goldman Sachs), trained people to believe things that will harm them -- and everyone.

It's not a conspiracy, just a lot of disproportionately greedy people behaving to maximize the same thing, and to achieve the same goal.

To some extent everyone's beliefs are the result of what could, for some value of the word, be called "training". But that includes yours.