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		benreesman on Nov 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldi... The root of all failure at the level of the society is the fungibility of inherited wealth into political power, which rapidly gets deployed to impoverish everyone else including soldiers, and on its way it tramples institutions once revered.

causal on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

> The root of all failure at the level of the society is ...

Or maybe the real root is our tendency to fixate on simplistic reductions.

laborcontract on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

they could have just had an alcoholic parent.

benreesman on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

I’m a pretty easy going guy in general but others might take offense.

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