• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I don’t think so. I think they are opportunists. It’s not that they’re dumb, it’s that they’re selfish.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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          If they were only selfish, but smart, they wouldn’t be voting for politicians whose demonstrated aim is to reduce their constituents’ wealth and funnel it into a class of people which their constituents have zero chance of ever joining.

          No, they’re dumb. They’re certainly also selfish, but that’s because they’re dumb and can’t comprehend the value of helping someone else, because the feedback loop on that mechanism has more than one step before they receive value back, and because the value received is most often in intangibles.