Steve Randy Waldman on Nostr: the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — ...
the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — the less likely journalists are to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
it becomes ever more uncomfortable to be the comfortable's affliction, and ever more comfortable to cheerlead, rationalize, and deflect from all that the comfortable afflict.
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