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[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

They won't enjoy it. Even the ones with power who keep getting what they want won't be happy, and they'll attribute the systemic failures to their enemies.

in my telling of the history of the 1970s…the hippies did win. We landed on the moon in July of 1969, Woodstock started three weeks later and, with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress stopped and the hippies won.

-Peter Thiel