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Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

[–] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically American Revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Common Sense said something that explains this quite well, "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,[...] Time makes more converts than reason."

[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 15 hours ago

I gotta read some Paine, great quote. I keep having conversations about how society changes today, hopefully it isn't just a local phenomenon