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Caylem @caylem00.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

You're still limiting your view to USA. orgs like IMF, jpbank, Goldman Sachs etc are the economic dog, musk is the tail. A tail that causes change & at times a useful lightning rod, but still gets wagged (Tesla dipping etc). He's too volatile for global $$ movers, so slums it in US politics.

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Caylem @caylem00.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'd disagree a bit there. Capitalism requires disparity to function properly, but allows for social mobility based on wealth acquisition. Feudalism doesn't. People like Musk, comparatively, aren't even at the top of the feudal or capitalist pyramid (even tho to us poor peons it looks like it)

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Caylem @caylem00.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Everyone still lives in a feudal society, imho. Just that the metrics of status/ elites are different (money/celebrity status rather than blood/god). look up neo-feudalism, it's an interesting take that I struggle to disprove.

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Caylem @caylem00.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In medieval times, there was a social contract- you paid taxes, and your local lord protected his lands/people and provided a standard of infrastructure (very oversimplified). There's no such contract now.

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Caylem @caylem00.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There's a set of mugshots that go viral every now and again from 1920s Sydney Australia that have a similar aesthetic. mhnsw.au/stories/unde... mhnsw.au/stories/gene... Shoutout to Museums of History of NSW

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Crime: A perverse hierarchy

The Roaring Twenties was a golden era for criminals. Social change post World War I brought opportunity, especially for the criminal elite. New markets emerged that could generate incredible wealth fo...

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