Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.

Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s a good explanation of generational poverty and why it’s so expensive to be poor, but if Vimes is looking for the real reason the rich are so rich, he should read about surplus labor value. He seems to have ignored the broader class dynamics at play under capitalism.

  Or maybe things are different on Discworld, I haven’t actually read the books.

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Funny enough he ends up marrying into extreme wealth lol

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  plenty of rich people debt spend.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, but they can afford to debt spend for better things they end up spending less for in the long run.

    Did you actually read the quote, or are you just going off the biggest text?

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