โ† the whole motif index

๐Ÿงฉ BND Motif Index ยท M714

Bought, not built

A rich man is said to have bought what he takes credit for, the companies, the inventions, the ideas, so the self-made genius is an investor wearing other people's work.

๐ŸŽญ Archetypes๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Money and power

โš ๏ธ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

๐Ÿชœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

๐Ÿชœ rests on ๐Ÿงฉ Stolen credit

๐Ÿงถ Its claims

what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard

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