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To relieve the pressure, plutes scapegoat other people based on their gender, sexual orientation, race, or nationality.

This provides an important resolution to the cognitive dissonance of meritocracy. The reason you're doing so badly isn't that you lack merit, it's that #AffirmativeAction has elevated unworthy people to the positions that *you* deserve.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

You *are* a temporarily embarrassed millionaire - but the riches you deserve have been snaffled up by welfare queens and DEI consultants.

Cruelty isn't the point of #CultureWarBullshit: the point is *power*. Cruelty is merely the *tactic*:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/09/turkeys-voting-for-christmas/#culture-wars

Culture war bullshit is a *very* reliable way to get turkeys to vote for Christmas.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Take the campaign against #JunkFees, which have ticketmastered every part of your life with "fees" for things like "paying your rent by check" and "*not* paying your rent by check":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/30/military-industrial-park-service/#booz-allen

There is no broad constituency for junk fees. Scam artists (including scam artists in the C-suites of Fortune 100 companies) love them, sure, but junk fees make everyone else furious.

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