Low-information social media users "carefully thinking through the issues" yesterday
A relatively benign tax on dead millionaires has become the new "wedge" issue on the British internet, driving pointless polarisation and distracting people from more serious problems.
The tax, which will only affect dead people who own farms worth in excess of £3 million pounds, was recently introduced by Britain's Labour government after it became apparent that "farm buying" was becoming a major form of tax dodging in the heavily-taxed rain-soaked island.
Under the government's proposals, farms passed on to the descendants of farmers will pay a measly 20% "inheritance tax" on the value of the farm over £3 million pounds. For example, a farm currently worth £4 million would only pay around £200K in inheritance tax, or 1/20th of its value. Currently inheritance tax for non-farmers is 40% above £325,000. For a direct comparison, a non-farmer leaving £4 million to his descendants would have to pay nearly a one-and-half-million quid!
Also, by driving tax-dodging rich people out of the farm-buying market, the measure is likely to make farms much cheaper for farmers and thus push the vast majority of British farmers under the incredibly generous £3 million threshold.
Despite these facts, the cherished status in which British farmers are held is being weaponised to create a false sense of the British government "oppressing" people and "threatening the food supply" among low-information social media users, many of whom are currently engaged in pointless echo-chamber "victim spiralling" or moronic arguments with more sensible and less emotional people.
It has not yet been determined who is driving this latest outbreak of collective idiocy, although the usual suspects (and their tools) must remain firmly in the frame.
Typical post by a Kremlin-backed fake outrage merchant
If your main concern is the presvation of the race ( in Darwinian terms) then surely if something is "low info" or not isn't really a concern.
ReplyDeleteIt is the double edged sword of polarization. Something might benefit yours goals or it might benefit your enemies.
Does the farm tax create more polarization? Do people perceive there is more of a bifurcation between subject and object? Does it further your goals or not?
Facts and truth mean little in aa society where the monotheistic God is rightly dead.
There is only the struggle for existence and for the differential against the onslaught of the turn to indifferented human matter.
Generally, I'm not in favour of relying on blind chance to make things better, although it is always theoretically possible to "luck out" in a state of chaos and confusion.
DeleteAlso, low-info hysteria and polarisation may not be the pristine Darwinian battle that one hopes for. It is usually caused by, and benefits, someone who is high-info who is manipulating the process for much more sordid ends.
That is true enough. Obviously high
Deleteinformation is more advantageous in group competition, but sometimes you have to go in blind to break the boredom LOL.
I do wonder if the endless humiliation rituals that the people who hold the regins of power inflict on native populations is just to f*ck with them, to see how much they will take, maybe they are just trying to break the boredom as well.
I am sure Schopenhauer wrote something similar about boredom or something along them lines.
The Brits are a complete joke. A weak and laughable people as of the past 50 to 60 years. It may be too late for them to turn it around and reclaim their manhood and some semblance of self respect.
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