Let's kick covid's rear THEN let's get medical institutions to study that thing where rich people

[ck4829]

think they are experts in whatever they happen to read about on Breitbart.

No, Jared. You're not an expert in infectious diseases.

What exactly causes it?

Does handling large amounts of money cause people to become pretentious and narcissistic?
Is there some sort of prion attached to 100 dollar bills?
You see your bank account with a lot of zeroes, does it cause autobiographical memory errors and failures in judgment?
Is it contagious?
Is there a cure (Besides the obvious ones)?

[Caliman73]

1. We are also part of the problem.

We help to inflate the vanity of wealthy people. We follow them and hang on their words. We have an entire industry built to promote the virtues of celebrity and wealth.

Certainly, being wealthy and having access to what is considered "the best" does give a person a sense of being better, smarter, etc... than everyone else, but let us not get it twisted, the attention we pay to the rich and celebrity gives them all the justification for thinking that too.

On our side, we become ecstatic when Robert De Niro or some other celebrity blasts Trump. Why? He is also not an expert in anything. He is an actor, but he supports what we think.

I totally understand what you are saying about Kushner and Trump and idiots who are incompetent and think their wealth makes them better. We just need to be real about the fact that we contribute to the problem.

[ck4829]

2. +1. We should try not to give celebrities that air-time

"Thanks, moving on"... that should be our response to actors who aren't out in the field themselves.

[RockRaven]

3. Jared's "research" was asking someone who asked a Facebook group for "serious responses only"

Trump's source of advice was solicited internet randos. Combined with Trump's malignant everything, it's no wonder the response is entirely fucked up.