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Because efficiancy never was the goal. "DOGE" is just a knock-off of Yarvin's "RAGE" (Retire All Government Employees), likely done to both stroke Muskrat's ego, and to obfuscate Yarvin from the "normies".
These people with all the capital are fucking morons.
It’s because everything we think is true about wealth is untrue…
There is no meritocracy…. Wealthy people have no great talent or intelligence….
The number one factor by a large margin that determines whether or not you are weatlhy is whether your parents were wealthy….
That’s it… that’s literally all it takes to be wealthy, to have capital… be born into it.
Anyone who says otherwise is fucking with you or trying to write their own personal bootstraps anecdote
There's more to it. To get that rich you need to make roulette level bets with money most of us will never have. For every Musk you have plenty of people born with similar amounts of money who either lived a normal life or made a bad bet. To a certain degree you have to be a bit daft to make these bets at all. If a reasonable investment strategy means you get a comfortable life and a bold one where you dedicste your life to it means you get to buy governments, then you have to be stupid and broken to take the latter.
It is fun to pretend we are all self made though I will be honest about that, but it’s an ego trip if you are unable to see the advantages you started with…. On an individual level it’s difficult to learn the skills of empathy and compassion, on a systemic scale it’s difficult to see and understand our “privilege”
That's because you think of money and power as tools to live your life. They think of it as what percentage of the total they possess. They would gladly give life changing money to ensure they can decide how you live your life