"I am somehow less concerned with the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain, than the near certainty that men and women of equal talent have died toiling in cotton fields and sweatshops" (and prison labor)
Well that is fundamentally wrong on its face. The people that own the highest valued companies didn't make shit. They bought or inherited it. (Obvious example being Elon Musk).
As for criticizing rentiers without any broader examination of the system the produces and enables rentiers is just trying to reapply Adam Smith to modern economics.
I'm not very smart but this all sounds very stupid.
Thankfully that has mostly not happened in our Matryoshka campaign, in fact it's kind of been the opposite of this meme lol. Getting involved with us or even being in our vicinity has led to mixed results to say the least.
Pretty sure we've been a net good but we definitely have unfortunately had a bad track record with getting assets and one of our handlers (and even nearly my character) turned into toothpaste.
People are still arguing over its implementation and it's cost us several hundred million dollars with zero construction actually being done.
I hate this state so fucking much.
Edit: for the record, yes I am actually one of our resident grass touchers and the California failure to implement HSR in accordance with the OVERWHELMING will of the voters is yet another drop in the bucket of Nakoichi's revolutionary rage reserve.
It demonstrably does not change anything outside local elections.