Conservativism is a movement of bitter rubes, led by pyramid scheme swindlers:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated
The "wait, is everyone else *also* failing?" awakening is an experience that many of America's CEOs are sharing at this moment, as they wonder whether they are the only ones who've fired as many workers as possible and replaced them with AI, only to see their company's fortunes fall:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/uber-ceo-says-other-execs-are-lying-about-ai-they-say-it-ll-be-fine-publicly-but-privately-admit-millions-of-jobs-are-gone/ar-AA1Z9QMv
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