{"id":61991,"date":"2022-02-23T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61991"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:04:43","slug":"our-financial-system-is-optimized-for-sociopaths-and-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61991","title":{"rendered":"Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/our-financial-system-is-optimized-for.html\">Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-3423230046748997423\" class=\"post-body\">\n<p><i>Let&#8217;s call this financial system what it really is:\u00a0the MetaPerverse, a conjured world of self-serving cons.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the\u00a0<i>hyper-pursuit of self-interest<\/i>.<\/b>\u00a0<i>Evidence<\/i>\u00a0that supports a\u00a0<i>causal chain<\/i>\u00a0has been replaced by cherry-picked data that supports a self-serving narrative: both the evidence and narrative are manufactured to serve the interests of the few at the expense of the many.<\/p>\n<p><b>In this juncture of history, evidence is easily disputed<\/b>\u00a0because the process of manufacturing\u00a0<i>self-serving evidence<\/i>\u00a0has been perfected. Indeed, self-serving evidence is now a commodity which can be purchased wholesale: rig the sample size, massage the data statistically, conjure up a context that serves to frame the evidence in a slippery self-interested fashion, omit disinterested evidence and contexts, top with arcane math and voila,\u00a0<i>evidence and narrative<\/i>\u00a0are presented as &#8220;facts&#8221; rather than what they really are, an elaborate, well-staged con designed to maximize the private gains of the few by exploiting the many.<\/p>\n<p><b>Organizing the entire system to serve the pathological greed of the few is best served by devaluing truth to mere opinion and causal chains to mere narratives.<\/b>\u00a0In this juncture of history, truth has been revealed as a chimera; there is only opinion, and all opinions are equal. Opinions are beliefs, and all beliefs are equal. All narratives are equal. All questions boil down to\u00a0<i>values<\/i>: values are all equally detached, free-floating and of the same value: zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation Let&#8217;s call this financial system what it really is:\u00a0the MetaPerverse, a conjured world of self-serving cons. We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the\u00a0hyper-pursuit of self-interest.\u00a0Evidence\u00a0that supports a\u00a0causal chain\u00a0has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24078,317,32683,587,5591],"class_list":["post-61991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-charles-hugh-smith-2","tag-financial-system","tag-gree","tag-of-two-minds","tag-self-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61992,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61991\/revisions\/61992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}