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[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I was laughing to myself earlier today, because this illustration is a great eye-opener for those willing to calm down a bit. Let's say Musk gives $6b to the UN. Where would that money go? The answer is so obvious it stares us in the face; the pro-authority people just don't want to see it: the money would go into the paychecks of a bunch of bureaucrats, each of whom is naively convinced that the paperwork they are pushing is actually doing something to "stop hunger". The bureaucrats have the right intentions, but are completely blind to the logical flaw in thinking that "a bureaucracy helps stop hunger". That thought process is the killer, because billions of people around the world on some level believe it to be possible. If they could just frame the question in that way in their minds, however, they'd see the categorical impossibility of what they think they are achieving. As Einstein (I think it was him, anyway?) said, human ignorance is the one inexhaustable resource in the universe.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Feels over reals.