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Yes, and it's because of monetary manipulation. Value creation tends to feel meaningful. It's unfortunate that our current system rewards self-flagellation over value creation.

But I guess the top 1% don't want to live among happy people. They'd rather the masses be self-loathing, exploitable commodities than fulfilled human beings.

And sadly, it often seems that the masses are just too dumb to even trust their own senses.

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> But I guess the top 1% don't want to live among happy people.

> And the masses are just too dumb to even trust their own senses.

Alright the 1%ers are evil and the other 99% are dumb.

But you...you have all the answers?

I think probably only a small minority are evil. I have some answers because I've faced many of the problems. It doesn't require much brain to figure things out, just a lot of wrong places, wrong times.

> I have some answers because I've faced many of the problems.

You haven't actually answered anything. You just blurted out things like "manipulation" and "exploitable".

It's easy to have answers when you don't have to really solve the problem, when you actually have to go and fix the problem yourself that's when you really face the problem and those answers are hard won. But I admire those who do tackle such problems or at least attempt too. The cost of real problem solving few will actually try to endure. It's messy, not straightforward and often a compromise you never wanted.

A thought experiment. If the problems (housing for teachers, for example) could be solved in a way which demoted "the 1%" from their position, would they be evil for not accepting that solution?

Can you elaborate on how housing for teachers can be solved in such a way without causing greater negative effects elsewhere?

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