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Strong disagree, the true villains have always been those attempting to convince you that human ingenuity and invention is bad. Without even mostly unknown inventions like the Haber process, over half of humanity would be starving right now.

Industrialists and inventors are the great heroes of our time.

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> Strong disagree, the true villains have always been those attempting to convince you that human ingenuity and invention is bad.

Those don't exist. Effectively nobody actually believes that, or is trying to convince anyone else of it.

And if you think that "we should make sure no one person or small group has too much power (with wealth being a form of power), because we've seen the bad outcomes that produces" equates to "human ingenuity and invention is bad", you have been swallowing propaganda whole.

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