for real. it goes to show how pervasive the ideology is that we assume the people benefiting the most under capitalism are clever, doing the calculation and finely tuning the controls for the optimal outcome of durable profit extraction.

it took me actually meeting some of these people to understand that almost all of them are ignorant shitheels who clumsily yank their levers of power to boost their immediate position and frequently sit on their own balls in the process.

it reinforces the idea that this is a system under which contradictions sharpen and tensions heighten because the people with control can't stop themselves.