• @fan0m
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    1 month ago

    I’d argue profit and control are two sides of the same coin

    • ElderReflections
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      231 month ago

      “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month ago

        Then, when all your desires are fullfilled, you realize that your life is empty because nobody around you actually gives a shit about you and are only using you as a connection to money and/or power. You end up a soulless husk of a human being whose only goal in life is line go up.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        Honestly, if they all stopped trying to get more money or power at the point where they have all the women and luxuries they could ever want it would be a vast improvement over the status quo at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

        Then when you get the power you tell the plebs to make more money. “This is America. If you don’t make more money (for me), you’re a douchebag”.

      • Bizzle
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        61 month ago

        Please elaborate

          • merde alors
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            -21 month ago

            not necessarily, again

            destruction may be the result of failure to control or even resistance to control. Why all these generalizations? There are so many variables in uncountably different situations.

        • merde alors
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          -21 month ago

          some profit from things getting out of control

          some give up on profit to have control (you may say that control is their profit, but i’m taking profit literally.