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As far back as we can see, human affairs have always been in a deplorable state.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Human beings, however, are privileged insofar as they have to bear an extra load—an extra dose of tribulations originated daily by a group of people within the human race itself.
Stupid people make life harder, and more miserable, for everyone.
In a country that is moving downhill, the fraction of stupid people is still equal to σ; however, in the remaining population one notices among those in power an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity (subarea BS of quadrant B in figure 3) and among those not in power an equally alarming growth in the number of helpless individuals (area H in the basic graph, figure 1). Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the σ fraction and makes decline a certainty. And the country goes to Hell.
This seems to be what is happening in the USA right now. Proponents of socialism among ordinary people are setting themselves up for massive losses as all their goods and rights are confiscated, at the same time a similar result will happen for nearly everyone else. The tiny number of people who will benefit from Socialism will live lavishly, but they will not gain as much as everyone else loses in the cumulative. There will be a net loss of both material and spiritual wealth.
