American decline is due, in large part, to the persistent efforts by rich people to ensure that their own progeny retain wealth and power no matter how stupid and lazy they are.

April 07, 2026 - 23:31 UTC

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And that no matter how great their wealth, they pay no inheritance tax.
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Yes yes yes yes . Mediocre parents who will stop at nothing to make sure their mediocre offspring are able to continue the cycle of mediocrity forever
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And anyone who has lived in a rural community knows this more than anyone.
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β€œMediocre” is generous. Many of these people are horrible parents.
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See also: the fall of Rome.
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So the same as with the British.
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They created the Fail-Upwards Class.
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That sounds like something. Some... royal thing...
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And evil. Can't forget that.
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To be fair, Biff Tannen (a fictional being) has more self awareness than Donnie Full Diaper from Queens (a live person who has been psychologically impaired since birth). Admittedly, that's a low bar.
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Well at least it's unique in history thus /s
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That's pretty much how most great powers decline. Like Ferdinand Porsche's quip about family businesses
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Rich people will do *anything* except compete for wealth.
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See Trump, Donald J.
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Capitalism is a fascinating system because it wants to kill itself so badly. Every internal mechanism in capitalism leads to basically this exact current situation and it has no pro-capitalist reform off ramps. It’s astounding it’s lasted 300 years
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Capitalism isn’t self-aware. It’s not alive. It’s not a person. People make the rules and regulations that control how the system operates. Capitalism is a tool, nothing more. We, humans, use it effectively or destructively.
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Americans har had to save capitalism from itself more than once; the New Deal was a massive effort to do just that.
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And the bigotry
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A closely related sickness
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