▲ 183 ▼ It took shockingly few generations for our ruling class to become morons (lemy.lol) submitted 3 months ago by Krauerking@lemy.lol to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Thoven@lemdro.id 0 points 3 months ago (3 children) Hard times create strong men Strong men create good times Good times create weak men Weak men create hard times The cycle continues permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago While this sounds very cute, it's wrong. Times are always hard for most people. Point to a good time in history and I'll point to the people whose backs it was resting on. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 months ago No. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Krauerking@lemy.lol [S] 1 point 3 months ago I have come to the idea that its, hard times makes scammers which eventually people close fisted with their money are less likely to be scammed. But eventually people become loose with their money when they feel they have enough and use it poorly and then we have an abundance of overpaid charlatans. And right now we are still seeing so many with such an endless amount of money they can't even feel the draining of their wealth by scammers. So the cycle is not working so well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago While this sounds very cute, it's wrong. Times are always hard for most people. Point to a good time in history and I'll point to the people whose backs it was resting on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol [S] 1 point 3 months ago I have come to the idea that its, hard times makes scammers which eventually people close fisted with their money are less likely to be scammed. But eventually people become loose with their money when they feel they have enough and use it poorly and then we have an abundance of overpaid charlatans. And right now we are still seeing so many with such an endless amount of money they can't even feel the draining of their wealth by scammers. So the cycle is not working so well. permalink fedilink source parent