Not vaporware. It actually works very well. And if you live in the sticks you thank your blessed angels for it.

some people think reality is a cartoon. Black and white. Good guys and bad guys. Some people are dumb that way. And they get played like a piano because of it.

Aha! You are bad because of the way you think. The classic.

I’m mad for good reasons because I’m good, you’re mad for bad reasons because you’re bad.

I don’t think it’s a “need for a feeling of superiority” that’s keeping it this way.

I think it’s because the hunger of the oligarchy is literally bottomless.

Each oligarch is in competition with all the other oligarchs.

Oligarch power is wealth.

So the oligarch feels eternal pressure to get wealthier. To beat the other oligarchs who are also constantly pressured to become wealthier. It’s a variety of prisoner’s dilemma.

And they get wealth by squeezing resources. Resources like us.

If we convert half of the population to food we could cut that workweek down to 2 days.