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Post by Marche noir suppressed by Perrais.

Renewed dissonance wrote:I think I had in mind traditional religious appeals, especially those by which "God" will provide for the faithful. The "invisible hand" of the market fills a similar role; indeed, it is exactly the same appeal dressed up in secularized verbage.

God/luck/the market will all provide to the faithful...you know, if you'll just take it up the backside for Us a little while longer, etc. I don't think its difficult to observe elites dragging this sort of thing around.

Except you're missing the whole point of invoking God and the Invisible Hand is that they are not random, like luck; instead, they supposedly distribute rewards to those who are hard working and/or devout. If you aren't a winner, in other words, it's your own fault, because you didn't work or pray hard enough. This is entirely different from the idea of luck, and in fact bringing the idea of luck into the picture actually challenges elite rhetoric, because it suggests that one's wealth is not the direct result of hard work, but of random factors like where and when you were born.

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