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Yes and no: to many, including most of the most powerful people in the US in particular and the world in general, "fuck everyone else, I want more money and/or power right now" IS their foundational ideology.
It's like Ayn Rand, but with less grandiose justifications and even more "might makes right" and victim blaming.
In other words, a particularly toxic mix of fascism and anarcho-capitalism.
OK, I think the most useful thing I can say right now is that, while you are not wrong in the archetypes that caused the problem that let us here, there are a lot more contemporaneous nuances to the problem, and which complicate any possible solutions than there used to be. Put simply, wow, very used to be your problem. That was once black and white, it is now not simply shades of gray, but it is the shades of grey on multiple dimensions.
So, it’s a similar problem, but one which affects many more people than anyone realized, previously, and then so many more complicated ways that we, even as an entire society, are struggling with trying to figure out exactly what they all mean, let alone how to deal with the problems that present themselves.
And while that is quite its own thing, what truly differentiates the progressive from the regressive is the willingness to both acknowledge that this is happening, along with the willingness to acknowledge that it must be dealt with in the terms of a public service and good, rather than a private corporate need right for exploitation.
Edit: even as we continue, discuss this, my point becomes clear: whenever intuitive degree this issue occurs, it is an extraordinarily nuanced and complicated situation which requires at least as nuanced and complicated solutions. Nothing is black-and-white. There is no one simple answer to anything.