ZnerflBerp

Information and investment assymetry means there will always be election-winning rewards for dirty politicking. An actually effective politician, who has morals must balance the two. And they must try to be more skillful in general at politicking than their unscruplous rivals.

They wouldn't dare if they thought revolution was a credible threat. The people have become too tame.

The theory is that inefficient companies die in the open marketplace, and bad leadership is inefficient.

This fails to account for the sheer scale and encumbancy advantages of massive corporations. It also fails to account that efficiency can be appallingly evil.

"not downplaying how bad Vucic had been to Serbia".

But you are, though.

This makes them sound stupid, but there was a lot of outright theft and threats going around too.

David Miscavige is a different kind of monster, I might even say more harmful. He's also less of an entertaining lunatic.

His lies are what made him rich. He hasn't delivered even close to a majority of what he promised. We are literally supposed to be on mars 5 years ago according to him.

Parting fools from their money is not respectable work in my view.

I think people should be reminded of this.

Where is the hyperloop? Where are the tunnels? Where is the mars program? Where are self driving cars?

He's a bloviating conman and no rational person should believe that this demo will ever see the light of day, if it wasn't faked.

This is completely outside of politics.

You are so easily taken in by a conman, saying he's doing one thing while doing something else (destroying investigations into his charlatanism).

You'd have loved L Ron Hubbard back in the day.

They might choose to do that after gaining a cursory understanding of the actual inner workings of the organisation. Especially if that organisation functions differently than corporations.

Actual Demon Thiel

Consequence of financial nihilism is a propensity towards YOLO plays - They believe that they will never succeed playing the game normally, so they are tempted to take the low % option