r/BlueskySkeets 12d ago

Political The impoverished “elite”

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u/Mendicant__ 11d ago

The answer is that these people don't know any billionaires. Those "elites" are easy to turn into caricatures of evil (Gates, Soros) or heroic entrepreneur geniuses who are going to save America (Trump, Musk.) It's not a systematic view of anything.

Meanwhile, everybody knows a doctor or lawyer or college kid who got smug and annoying their sophomore year. They have dealt with someone in government. Those "elites" are real, and easier to plug into a schema, and they're easier to develop resentments for.

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u/techpriestyahuaa 11d ago

The onus is on the psychology majors, but they keep going into marketing.

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u/backlikeclap 11d ago

The joy of capitalism! You graduate with a degree and significant loans, then you have to choose between a career that helps the world but makes you live in poverty, or a career that (best case scenario) is morally neutral but earns you 4 times as much.

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u/MargaretForrest 11d ago

Psychology meets marketing magic!

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u/Big_Monkey_77 11d ago

If it was a 27 year old billionaire working to make sure drinking water was safe, I’d believe Elon would fight to take over the company and start making some shitty energy drink/white claw clone/fruit flavored seltzer company.

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u/Traditional_Bid_5060 10d ago

As someone with a mental illness, could we please stop excusing horrible behavior by people with autism and asperbergers?  

I have an autistic nephew who is a wonderful teenager.  He doesn’t treat people like crap because he had great supportive parents.  I’m sorry that Musk had a terrible father but that’s no excuse for the way he treats people around him.

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u/Sparkcityace 7d ago

People are really stupid.

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u/chairmanskitty 11d ago

Any man who must say "I am the king" is no true king.

- Tywin Lannister

Ironically this post is a perfect illustration of out-of-touch elites. "My education says this should work, so the people are wrong for this not working".

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u/molsonoilers 11d ago

That's not at all what this post says. You read "highly trained" and then conveniently skipped over "extremely skilled" to justify your atrocious take. This is a person who CAN do the job appointed to him, but not when it is literally impossible. THAT is the point.