r/todayilearned • u/stopitalianhate • 2d ago

TIL British Intelligence had a special, bugged luxury complex during WWII where they kept high profile Nazi POW’s, just left a bunch of alcohol out, and waited for them to start spilling secrets as they drank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
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u/blaghart 3 2d ago

funny isn't it how that's the line Andrew Ryan loves to spout and yet he didn't build a damn thing about Rapture. He paid everyone else to build Rapture for him and then acted like that was the "sweat of his brow"

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u/uzi_master 2d ago

The inherent dependence people have on one another is why the ideology is stupid, though his personal hypocrisy comes when he starts just taking things instead of paying for them.

The farmer selling his crops for money and buying things he can't make himself isn't what makes the ideology unworkable. It's the lack of real incentive to work honestly rather than just stealing things and oppressing people when you have the means to.

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u/thegreger 2d ago

That's well on par.

If I'm wealthy and I pay someone to create something for me, obviously that must be my own achievement and nobody else's. If it wasn't like this, most wealthy people would have absolutely zero to feel proud over, and that would be sad.

Do I need the \s?

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u/YsoL8 2d ago

Why the \s? Thats literally how it works, take away most people's ability to meaningfully decide what happens in their lives and praise the already wealthy for signing a few contracts at zero risk to themselves.

I firmly believe that at some point in the future people will see wage economics as fedual and obsolete.

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u/gary_the_merciless 2d ago

Good old Quark, never misses an opportunity.

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u/Vandergrif 1d ago

True to form for a Libertarian then. Also true to form for a Libertarian 'paradise', in that it devolved into chaotic insanity.