Mister Meritocracy

Today I'm going to bother you, dear reader, with a 5 minute monologue by mister Meritocracy. In those 5 minutes of woolly words there are two thing I agree wholeheartedly with: 1) we all have limited time on this planet, time is the one scarcity we all have to contend with, and 2) you can only be proud of your achievements, not the things that were given to you.

This will be a short post for two reasons, the first being the scarcity of time; I have a lot on my plate currently, one thing being that my girlfriend and I, after having been together for 33 years, have decided to get engaged and married. Not as some official declaration of our love for each other and our son, we don't need that after more than three decades, but as a purely practical economical necessity; here's a small glimpse into the reality that economy rules almost all our decisions.

The second reason is that I don't want to spoil too much. Mister Meritocracy is Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person in America, who made his fortune by making a website and underpaying his employees. In the video we hear him defending the meritocracy, and himself by extension. I just want you to listen to him and draw your own conclusions, but when you do I want you to keep in mind that he had to be pressured into paying his workers a living wage, that he's bought the Washington Post, that he recently bought the most expensive real-estate in Los Angeles for 165 million dollars, that he has cities in America compete among themselves to attract his production facilities by offering him favorable taxation and regulation and so on and so forth.

This is supposed to be a "motivational speech", but coming from the mouth of one of the world's biggest opportunists it all falls flat. And that's on top of the untruths he tells. His life, his career and his success are the exact opposite of what he's trying to convey here. Just one small and infuriating example is that he states the age old half truth that "you are the author of your own life", while the glaring reality is that he himself is the co-author of the lifes of his employees and all readers of the Washington post. His wealth gives him the power to be that omnipresent co-author of all our lifes. His brother in arms, Michael Bloomberg, is currently trying to buy the elections and also has his own news network; both these men and Donald Trump are the telltale symptoms of the oligarchy, they need us to believe the nonsense told in the linked video. Watch it, and see if you believe it.

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