• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    The number of private security firms the FT has been able to interview tells its own story, and their backgrounds too: experienceD, skilled staff leaving the FBI to set up business as entourage for our new feudal overlords.

    People are losing faith in society as having anything approaching meritocracy. Rising to the top is no longer credible. And it’s not just security spending, it’s all that work on their mythos and origin stories promoting the idea that they are ubermensch.

  • Sundray@lemmus.org
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    “I could create a better, safer world for myself and everyone else, building genuine goodwill from my fellow human beings… nah. I’ll just triple-down on the alienation and paranoia.”

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    Think how truly life changing it would be, if $1m just popped into your bank account one day - you could pay off your mortgage, buy a new car, start a business, or take your family on a vacation to remember.

    Mark Zuckerberg could do that each and every single day of the year

    36 times over…

    just from a 5% return on his current net worth!