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The problem is the propaganda. Yes it’s obviously a tax break for the wealthy. However that may be fine according to the propaganda that “it’s to support small businesses, which are the job creators of our economy”. If I believed that, I might support this giveaway to the wealth, so it’s important to not just prove this is a break for the wealthy but that the purported benefit is just not there.
I guess this is somewhat analogous to “trickle down” economics in general where it may be worth it if the claimed benefits were there. However we have huge amounts of proof that’s it’s not the kind of trickling that we want on us
I completely agree, its just...
My autistic brain just... I can't immediately grasp the idea that most people just do not bother to look into things in detail, most people have no innate drive to... investigate whether or not what they believe is actually correct.
I'm not saying you have to be autistic to want to be factually correct, to want to fully investigate things so as to not believe and repeat bullshit...
But I am saying that my mind just... I always have to consciously step back and go... oh, right, most people are just vibes based, about literally everything, they don't have an automatic 'wait, am i actually correct?' mechanism built in as a check to 99% of what they see and believe.
My brain has analytical logic mode, and... social mode. What actually, mechanistically makes sense, vs... what do most people actually act like?
I can either approach things in either of these two ways, but when I start to try and mix both, I get frustrated by very obvious and apparent hyprocrisies and inconsistencies everywhere, very quickly.