[FatherOfCurses]

> "The future won’t reward effort. It’ll reward leverage." (From the Cluely ad)

JFC kill me now that is NOT a future I want to live in.

[littlexsparkee]

you can fudge it for a while...but not forever. i worry about what kind of message this sends young minds though.

[butterbomb]

This became clear to me over the last few years. We are quickly returning to a world of entrenched social hierarchy where there are lords and peasants and little room even for social mobility.

With the corpse of meritocracy too rotted to deny at this point the elite simply seem to have run out of lies for placating the people.

Or, more likely the people are so sickeningly impotent, that’s there’s no need for the lies anymore. The new aristocracy will prevail over liberalism and everything the west lied of being part of the their values for years.

[AtlasBarfed]

That ultimately happens from entrenched geopolitical situations as well.

However, I think we are entering an age of geopolitical chaos. And that will be a darwinian struggle of functioning governance systems.

[_DeadFred_]

The west had been fighting this since it's founding.

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant

[qgin]

Has the world ever rewarded effort?

[krapp]

No. Not once in the entire history of the human race, from the time we were dwelling in caves to today, not in any tribe, village, hamlet, city, state, kingdom or nation, in no culture or circumstance, has effort ever been rewarded.

It's weird that homo sapiens sapiens has been around for approximately 300,000 years and it's never happened once. Not even once.