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Just deleted the duplicate, thanks for the heads up
But that's it. That cognitive dissonance is just part of the veil, same as the meme above.
The poor folks who get absorbed by the veil think they're a shoe-in to the rich, when they couldn't be further away - they'd have better chances of being picked to go to space than becoming part of the ultra-wealthy.
But I was also trying to convey: even if the poor person absolutely knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is no possible way that they will ever in their lifetime or any alternative reality ever become rich - even then, they still would vote for the right of the wealthy to pay less taxes than they themselves do, both in relative and even in absolute terms.
They think the resulting system is more "fair" - like Bezos made Amazon, and that is "good", right?, whereas what does poor little old me offer to society at large... and anyway surely they give a lot to charity and basically it's better for me and mine to put all the money into their hands than to put it into mine own, bc they know better how it should be managed for the good of us all(TM).
Yeah, the people who flunked economics in college, or far more likely never went to college and never took an economics class in high school either, act to block literal PhD professors who have spent decades studying the thing, plus also were involved in making them in the first place, like Robert Reich the former United States Secretary of Labor under Clinton's administration and who also served under Ford and Carter, founded the Economic Policy Institute, and teaches at Berkeley. But on the one hand you have people like him, while on the other you have the disgraced Bill O'Reilly, the disgraced Tucker Carlson, who was "just asking questions", the disgraced Roger Ailes, and nowadays the likes of Joe Rogan. I forget, what degree does he have?
When brown-nosing, Don't Look Up (the movie title). You might not like what you see.:-D