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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

I love having capital, now if only there weren't all this pesky labor.

Any meritocratic system becomes an informal aristocracy after a generation or two. And aristocrats are so notoriously good at understanding the systems that facilitate and keep them in power...