Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)
by ForHackernews on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:14PM
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Ok, I can maybe give you consumer products, but you could equally argue that they benefit as much from happy complacency as from despair.
Have any politicians in the West in the last three decades run successfully on a hard-environmentalism and anti-poverty campaign?
The crisis that's been political gold recently has been human migration, but it doesn't seem to me that the voters animated by that issue are feeling anxious and despondent. (Maybe they are, it's a little hard for me to relate to that mindset) They seem absolutely furious and enjoying their revanchist political power.
Politicians - if you can pump up a crisis, and present yourself as the solution to that crisis, gold and power flows into your hands.