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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity

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33 points almost-exactly | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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PaulKeeble ◴[28 Jun 25 14:36 UTC] No.44405009[source]▶
I wouldn't bet on the populace, other than a few moments in history they have been impossible to organise towards improvement as they are under constant propaganda pressure. My bet is on the billionaires winning and a move to feudalism with money continuing to be the main mechanism that governments decide who to help and who to hurt.
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api ◴[28 Jun 25 15:19 UTC] No.44405301[source]▶
Propaganda pressure is one thing, dogmatic ideologies are another. Many in the populace have value systems that simply don’t value prosperity, or that are more concerned with hatred of our groups or maintaining some social order than prosperity.
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bigbadfeline ◴[28 Jun 25 18:17 UTC] No.44406883[source]▶
> Propaganda pressure is one thing, dogmatic ideologies are another.

Propaganda pressure creates dogmatic ideologies and skewed value systems. There's no other way for them to come into existence.

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1. api ◴[29 Jun 25 14:25 UTC] No.44413432[source]▶
You think dogmatic traditional religious ideologies popped into existence recently?

Propaganda can certainly revive and manipulate them but they were already there.