> The Madisonian principle, then, is that government.. must provide special and additional guarantees for the rights of one class of persons, property owners.
> Madison foresaw that the threat of democracy was likely to become more severe over time because of the increase in "the proportion of those who will labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution...
#Madisonianism #JamesMadison #USA #SalamiRights as #RichGuy #PropertyRights #Madisonian Principles

> ... [If after] four centuries.. we now overvalue the machine, is it not because the mechanistic doctrine which has made us competent to design machines and control them also promises to give the scientist an equal hold over the living organisms he unfeelingly identifies with machines? In a world of machines, or of creatures that can be reduced to machines, #technocrats would.. be gods. --- #LewisMumford, #MythOfTheMachine: #PentagonOfPower. p 72
1970 #Mumford on #Tech #RichGuy #AIHype

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-hypocrisy-makes-him-the-biggest-snowflake #ThinSkin #hypocrisy #Snowflake #Authoritarian #richguy #LeaveTwitterEnterMastodon

#MohawkValleyFormula . written up in Pennsylvania ... Thanks to #NoamChomsky for bringing it up, exposing the sack of lies to a thoughtful light.
#jacobinmag #jacobinmagazine #union #labor #Starbucks #RichGuy #YARM #YetAnotherRichMoron #TaftHartley

My feeling is that #ElonMusk is similar #BillGates and other techno rich people. If the railroad generation suffered 'robber barons' mabye we suffer from 'IT barons'. Hundreds of years have passed and we still suffer under a feudalism of corporations. This #fuedalism is run by members of the #YARM club: Yet Another Rich Moron. #Moron in the #RobertMHutchins sense of not thinking.
https://bzmall2.gitlab.io/scriblog/2021_09_24_index_and_new_bib.html#%28idx._%28gentag._101%29%29
#RichGuy #ITBarons

> ... the 25 richest people in the US paid a true tax rate of just 3.4% from 2014 to 2018. The average taxpayer..pays a true tax rate of 13%. It wasn’t always like this.. wasn’t that long ago that the ultra-wealthy paid their fair share in tax; during the second world war, the federal income tax rate peaked at 94% and was still 70% three decades later. The rich haven’t just gotten richer, they’ve also gotten.. more selfish.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/23/us-billionaires-taxes-elon-musk-week-in-patriarchy
#WealthGap #RichGuy #USA #Poverty #ArwaMahdawi

> ... a #bureaucrat is little else than a glorified counter. The French word bureau first meant a cloth for covering a reckoning table, then the table itself, then the room in which the table was kept, and finally the office and staff that ran the entire counting room or house... the word... has come to mean a person who by training, commitment, and even temperament is indifferent to both the content and the totality of a human problem. #NeilPostman in #Technopoly on #richguy #bureaucracy #dams

> ... on some level, all bureaucracies work on this principle: once you introduce formal measures of success, “reality”—for the organization—becomes that which exists on paper, and the human reality that lies behind it is a secondary consideration at best.
--- #DavidGraeber sounding like #NeilPostman on how bureaucracies are designed to disregard information. That's how big #dams can be built.
https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/
#Aravinda #India #Narmada #richguy #bureaucrat

> （IQが低い人たちと言うのは、水俣病の患者の抗議文を書いた人たちへの発言ですが、「IQの低い人たち」は明らかに障害者差別です）...
> 「補償金が目当ての“偽”患者もいる」。
> 重度障害者たちが治療を受けている病院を視察した石原氏は、会見にて「ああいう人ってのは、人格があるのかね」

- https://ameblo.jp/mikan-kajyuen/entry-12724784683.html
#石原慎太郎 #IshiharaShintarou #水俣病 #obnoxious #richguy

> “Don’t talk like illiterates!” thundered Justice Kurdukar when asked about the responsibility of Maharashtra government towards displaced villagers of Maharashtra being relocated to Gujarat.
- https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/

#obnoxious #richguy #JudgeKurdukar is like #IshiharaShintarou #石原慎太郎 : the way he ridiculed #MinamataDisease patients after seeing their #petition . Ishihara said "low IQ" instead of "illiterate" but the intent is the same, to ignorethe actual harm to the #primarypeople.