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Originally Posted by Diode
You're underestimating powerful people's egos in an era where the proletariat still had some semblance of power to change things. They invented this mystique to keep themselves from being challenged. The best part of all of that is it came tumbling down anyway thanks to Teddy Roosevelt. Yet here you all are, clinging to late 19th/early 20th century corpses as if they are relevant in today's world.
Truly rich/old money people today don't need cloak and dagger. They have no threat from those beneath them. There is no need to be opaque about it. You're all grasping at straws to explain why the world is unfair.
Life is unfair. That's it. Mystery solved.
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In your first sentence, did you mean 'overestimating'?
"Yet here you all are, clinging to late 19th/early 20th century corpses as if they are relevant in today's world."
Kidding me, right? Show me where the Rockefellers don't have influence over the world's elite economic, political and social institutions and I MIGHT take what you say seriously. You've got a good head on your shoulders though, and I will admit that I'm not the most knowledgeable about what Roosevelt did during his presidency, aside from the Sherman Act, which broke up the monopolies.
The world is unfair... life is unfair... there is no underlying conspiracy... I'm grasping for straws. Address the bit of the video @
oats and it will make more sense to you after you've addressed the first paragraph of my post. How much influence do they still hold, these old relics of forgotten lore... lmao.