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The elite will finally meet the long term consequences of their past and present decisions.

It will be an spectacle: the true test of how useful wealth is against the Universe, compared to other things like knowledge or wisdom.

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> The elite will finally meet the long term consequences of their past and present decisions. It will be a spectacle: the true test of how useful wealth is against the Universe, compared to other things like knowledge or wisdom.

This is casting categories of people in very rigid and binary terms. Wisdom and knowledge is not more prevalent amongst the non-elite is it? Isn’t it distributed more evenly?

Thanks to their power, their decisions affect many. Those decisions are taken sometimes blindly, even if they could pay for good advice, sometimes knowing it's only for own benefit in short term at the expense of the rest. In the later case, they have knowledge, but decide to act anyway, as long term they will be dead. Any bad or good decision by a poor nobody will have a lot less impact.

Iain M. Banks probably said it best. "I mean, your society's broken, so who should we blame?"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the...

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