because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal… the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
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defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoWhy isn’t class-based rage as popular, then?
because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal… the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
Ah yes. The “temporarilly embarrased billionaire”. How could I forget?
What’s baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year. who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how ‘difficult’ their life is because they can’t afford first class plane tickets.
Because it’s based on reality and doesn’t pander quite as much.
Salvia@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Because the right censors that and feeds anti-socialist propaganda to the media so people misunderstand it and don’t try to fight it.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Good ol’ Red Scare propaganda.