Sunday, October 03, 2021
It's all Spanish Prisoner
Democracy and meritocracy are variants on the Spanish Prisoner racket.
The classic version of the racket goes like this:
I need to get access to a pile of money.
I can't reach the money without some 'processing', which may be travel or bribing officials or paying taxes.
Will you help me with the 'processing'? If you help me, I'll give you a cut of the money.
And then the scammer simply disappears. You've lost money and received nothing.
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Bribing is the most common version of 'processing'. When you believe you're helping to violate a law, you're less likely to call the cops.
The modern scammers, known as the Yahoo Boys, have reduced the pattern to the absolute minimum, and it still works. Sucker Filter.
They don't even bother to promise that you'll get a cut. You're doing it solely for "friendship", or in some cases for "patriotism". The scammers pretend to be US soldiers trapped in Yemen or Syria or Afghanistan.
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Elections follow the same pattern, except that the potential windfall is power, not money.
A candidate says:
I need to get access to a pile of power.
I can't reach the power without some 'processing', which may be travel or bribing officials or campaign expenses.
Will you help me with the 'processing'? If you help me, I'll give you a cut of the power.
After you help, the candidate wins and proceeds to implement exactly the same agenda as the other politicians. Or else he stops running and endorses the Deepstate candidate. He now has access to power, but you don't get a cut of the power. Your views are still completely ignored and unrepresented.
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Meritocracy follows the same pattern, except that the windfall is status, not money.
You think you're paying to get access to a cut of status. After you pay, the mentor or school or advertiser has more money, but you still don't have any more status.
Labels: Sucker Filter
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