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It seems on-the-face-of-it unlikely that any significant population imagines that they will one day be able to own a private beach, even if they are unjustifiably optimistic about their future wealth. I've been around a lot of people who have hopes about their level of future wealth, and that's not a level anyone thought they would achieve.

So, look, have you considered that when you try to make common cause with the whatever non-super-elite class of people you're trying to make common cause with, you do it in a way that doesn't make you a patronizing asshole? Because you're assuming that people are too dumb or brainwashed to "vote their interests" rather than that they have a different conception of their interests than you do

parent aetherson 7 years ago

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