alt Hacker NewsMeanwhile in the west we're lead by the weakest who merely got good grades but never built a thing of their own. People who caved time and again for money and sold our infrastructure off undermining our own learning and growth as individuals and a collective
The winners in our system are just the ones who get everyone else to kowtow and do the work, leaving leadership ignorant and inexperienced but lauded for some reason
It's a weird reverential system where figments of imagination still earn great amounts of deference; figment of out imagination being the American civil religion and hierarchy of figureheads who don't even know you exist; why would they care?
How reliant this culture is on bowing to figureheads painted on walls while talking like it isn't is a bizarre cognitive dissonance that should be studied for centuries
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>Meanwhile in the west we're lead by the weakest who merely got good grades but never built a thing of their own.
That's a spicy take on the political legacy of the professional managerial class. /s
(Yes I know you meant politicians and politics adjacent high level bureaucrats, academia and industry)
> by the weakest who merely got good grades
Like who? Trump?
> The winners in our system are just the ones who get everyone else to kowtow
In soviet system, connections were literally everything. Not merit, not achievement, but who you know, who is your friends, who trades favors with you.