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This is an important point and takeaway.
These people truly are no different than us. They are not special in any way shape or form.
Part of the reason society is organized this way is based on the premise of the lie that the wealthy really are different: smarter, more capable, talented, and so on.
The reality is they're likely far dumber than most of us. There's actually a decent amount of evidence for this, too.
When I was first in college back in the early 2000's, I had a friend who was struggling to make ends meet so he could finish his Masters Thesis. So he found work writing original research papers for more wealthy students at more prestigious schools. He got to fund his education, and some rich twat got to put their name on an all-original research paper that can't be proven to actually be plagiarism.
Not only do the wealthy's children get special accommodation if they aren't actually all that smart, but there's a whole cottage industry around them exploiting their poorer peers to inflate their credentials.
I think credential inflation is a massive reason the whole shitshow feels like it's about to fall apart, because we're about 20 years deep into world leaders not actually knowing how anything they're in charge of works because they actually genuinely lack the education to understand it even though they've faked the credentials.
It just gets worse with each successive generation of the wealthy. They insulate their children from failure and fake them being smarter than they are until the parents are too stupid to even know if the kids are faking it properly.
It's like that idea that the poor are bad long-term planners because they have so much more mental load to survive than the wealthy do. However, the wealthy are literally burning down our planet as fast as they can, which will kill our entire species. Doesn't sound like healthy long-term planning to me. Sounds like a fucking lie to justify the idea that the wealthy are somehow special and different when they are not.
