Something I have to remind myself of and becomes more true to me directly as time goes on is that many rich successful people are not fucking smart at all and that the veil of meritocracy that US culture promotes is purposeful to the point of hiding how not smart the rich are.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a mind fuck because I can logically understand it... I already knew it. But my head does not want to believe it having been brought up with every single socially imprinted expectation being to the contrary.

And that's not just a disbelief in rich people being stupid, because that's an obvious given. But in the fact that they would be so deeply and utterly poisoned by propaganda that they would consider this mayor to be powerful enough to be a physical threat to them that they must run from... That's the disbelief I'm struggling with here. Because it requires being incredibly detached from reality to think that. A level of detachment that is hard to imagine.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

A part of it as well might be ease of "running" for them. For a regular person, uprooting your whole life and moving somewhere else is a huge affair, but for them, they just have to sell their apartment in NYC and stay in their holiday home in the Hamptons until they find a nice fancy place somewhere else to buy. None of the moving will be done by them, none of the actual stress and effort of moving affects them directly, so it probably isn't as daunting to them as it would be to an ordinary person.