Microblog Memes

They probably think the "cattle" will tire themselves out with revolution after a decade or so, and then they can reemerge to retake the reins of society.

It doesn't make the most sense but these people have more money than sense, almost definitionally.

Sadly, most people are incapable (or unwilling) to think beyond maybe 2 links in the causal chain, the "in your face" immediatelly visible stuff and a simple explanation for it (generally of the "people I don't like did it" kind).

Faced with "this is happening" (or, worse, "somebody is telling me this is happening"), they'll generally accept whatever "explanation" they're fed and can't just keep asking themselves "Why?" ("Why are you telling me this (what's in it for you)?", "why would those people do this (what's in it for them)?", "is that the only reason?" and so on).

For example, if you dig down, in most countries in Europe the increase in immigration can be traced back to locals not having enough kids and thus the population is aging and you need to let in working age people to pay for retirement pensions of the locals, and that in turn digs down to massive realestate bubbles and stagnating salaries so that the profits of the fatcats are high (at the unspecialized level immigration does put downwards pressure on salaries, though the picture is less clear above that) making life way harder for young people so they have fewer children, and that in turn leads to how the parties in government (mainly the "mainstream" ones) have reliably enacted policies to favor very rich people (mainly making the income from Work be less and less whilst the income from Asset Ownership is more and more) and realestate investors and even the "fringe" "left" has just blindly parroted pro-immigration slogans from the American and British liberals (and ended up punished at the ballot for it, to the gain of the Far-Right), and that in turn leads us to just how many of those politicians have "realestate investestor" as their main source of wealth increase and to the massive levels of Corruption in the modern era (and on the "fringe" "left" parties we dig down to how those heading them grew up in the Neoliberal era, don't really have coherent leftwing ideologies unlike in the old days and thus think the moral liberalism of the Neoliberals is what being "leftwing" is all about).

IMHO Populism works because it just points at some issue (or makes one up) and then provides a single-layer immediate explanation (generally of the "they're bad people" kind), and that's it.

In the UK they've moved on to "we're too small to make a difference, it's like pissing in the wind"..

It's not happening.

It's happening, but it's not our fault.

It's our fault, but it's too late to do anything about it...

Absolutely.

I don't fly often, but my entire team travels for work, meaning they are on the road all day, everyday. We are a sales organization and that's what is expected by our customers.

I'm not exempt from blame here. I do what I can to reduce my footprint, sadly it's not much.