People will read scientific information in ways to support their prejudices.

Franklin would not be different.

We like to idolize these historical figures but if this guy was alive nowadays he'd probably be rage posting in alt-right forums only accessible on the dark-web.

Well, Franklin helped pull off a massive treason against the Rightful Authority of the crown. He would probably be all for toppling our government, and for insurrection.

I kind of think the opposite, that people will basically end up at whatever social status they would be regardless of system so he would just have modern day elite views (instead of mainstream modern day elite views of his time).

Just like people today who think they would have resisted the nazis in 1930s Germany but hold all mainstream opinions in the modern day

> that people will basically end up at whatever social status they would be regardless of system

So what determines that intrinsic and inevitable social status?

Culture.

Terence McKenna's take on it, fwiw:

https://ehsto.com/blogs/undertone-journal/terence-mckenna-cu...

Wikipedia:

>Ben... was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.

Doesn't sound like the profile of your average alt-right rage poster.

>> rage posting in alt-right forums only accessible on the dark-web.

Nah. True rage posters don't have the attention span for Tor. They want the instant feedback of X. And for all the talk of echo chambers, they want to get people angry. So they want their material to be discoverable by outsiders. So, again, X.

Probably twitter or truth social or whatever.

He strikes me as a good candidate for Q adjacent stuff also.