• Digitalprimate@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They have, however, made great progress creating tools that destroy consensual reality. Which was the point all along.

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      1 day ago

      Mmmm, less the outright point, more a desired side effect. It helps keep the masses in line if they don’t know what’s real, but doesn’t directly concentrate wealth on the scale they want.

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        That’s a better way of putting the causal chain. That said, ultimately the oligarchs’ goal is to “concentrate wealth,” so having a reality destroying machine is a really accelerant for that process.