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markodochartaigh

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4. Yes, it is like
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 03:28 PM
Oct 26

Henry Ford paying his workers enough to buy the cars that they made, which also infuriated his fellow car manufacturers.

But some of our oiligarchs seem to want a dystopian future like Yarvin posits. Those oiligarchs surely think that they have already won phase one of the game, the one with masses of the hoi-polloi, and they want to move to phase two, where only the winners from phase one are in the game.

Edit: I think that this explains the divide among our oiligarchs. Some want the pie to keep getting bigger knowing that they will get more pie. Others just want all of the pie, NOW. Some want the goose to keep laying the golden eggs of capitalism, others want to roast the goose for one final banquet.

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