Comment on Any time you're told that the weak and vulnerable are responsible for how bad things are, rather than the rich and powerful, you're being lied to

BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What exactly are you trying to say here? That—because some guy thinks all of America’s problems are rooted in the left automatically siding with the little guy—the rich and powerful aren’t actually powerful?

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  • BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They sure are. And this world needs changes. But the claim here is just wrong. Being rich and powerful doesn’t make them automatically accountable for everything.

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    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No individual is responsible for everything. But there are a disproportionately small number of individuals with a disproportionately large amount of power over a lot of things that affect a large number of people. And you can bet they talk to each other.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Who are these people?

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But the claim here is just wrong. Being rich and powerful doesn’t make them automatically accountable for everything.

      No, of course not. No one is responsible for everything.

      But, as a very quick and simplistic example of what the post is saying, if someone hates immigrants because “they took our jobs,” that person is missing the very obvious fact that employers are the ones hiring people. Immigrants can’t “force” that. And of course even that employer is responding to pressures, both systemic and from above them.

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    • Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Either you are being short-sighted or disingenuous. Of course they aren’t automatically accountable for EvErYtHiNg. But they are accountable for a vastly disproportionate amount of things that affect most people’s lives. Ya know, that’s how power works.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can you name specific examples?

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty much the definition of powerful right?

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, “being accountable for everything” is not the definition of powerful.

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You should do some reading into complex systems analysis. No one is putting everything on any specific individual. The system we live in acts similarly to a living being. It broadly seeks to exist in perpetuity and will do what it can to see that through. In our societal system the more money you have, the more powerful you are and the powerful implement systems to further expand and entrench their power. They’re benefactors of a violent and corrupt system that runs on exploitation and they have a responsibility to dismantle it. They never will so everyone else needs to do it for them.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The person who wrote that book is a political agent for the rich.

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