Augustiner

@Augustiner@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would rather live in a "class system" than a "caste system"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand what you’re saying correctly we are largely on the same page about this… class mobility upward is hard and almost impossible. Classes are usually discriminatory against other classes (sometimes even towards higher classes). This makes actual class mobility very hard. People have to mask as having always belonged to a certain class by acquiring the correct signifiers.

  What I am not sure I agree with, or maybe I just don’t understand it, is the point about dimensions of class. People are more than just the job they do. An aristocrat who is living off inheritance has about the same amount of actual working experience that a low class individual who can’t get a job has. They both don’t work, but since the aristocrat has a bunch of capital which the drunk doesn’t have they are on opposite ends of the spectrum.

  Idk why you were getting those downvotes. I’ll check out Fussel if I get the chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would rather live in a "class system" than a "caste system"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying caste system is better, both are terrible. We should strive to abolish both.

  But to your point about class mobility: You can always move down in class, up is neigh impossible. Thinking that money will help you move up is only a carrot that the upper class dangles in front of the poor. Class is not only determined by wealth, it is determined by capital. Capital encompasses not only financial and economic capital, but also social capital, intellectual capital, cultural capital, etc. To move up in class you will have to acquire enough of all of these, just money isn’t enough. If you don’t have the same manners, vocabulary, friends, status symbols and don’t consume the the same media you will never be accepted and only be considered a nouveau rich and a gaudy buffoon. Your lifestyle will be better than that of the rest of your class, but the higher class will never accept you as one of their own. Your kids might be able to move up, if you put them in the right school so they can absorb some of that social capital and learn the language, squire the correct manners and make the right friends. But you will very likely be forever stuck in the same class that you were born in, unless you move down.

  There is a Philosopher called Hanno Sauer who wrote a book about this. I don’t agree with all of it, but he has some very interesting observations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Action idea? Epstien files.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo I sympathise with the sentiment and it is really fucked that there is so little done about that stuff.

  But, and I don’t mean this as an attack, you sound like you could use a news break for a while and maybe talk to someone in person. Sitting in bed at noon crying is definitely a sign of stuff being a bit out of balance and sometimes shit just gets too much to handle on your own in our time of flooding the zone with shit and hypernormalisation…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Aesthetics of Fascism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy is great, I highly recommend his channel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First they made the m&m less sexy and now this -.-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another company Microsoft bought and ran into the ground. It’s really incredible that they managed to get their lunch stolen. They had basically a monopoly and gave it away without a fight. Hell, the colloquialism for video calling someone was to Skype them for a looong time.

  And then one small competitor comes along and it’s all gone. How can you fuck up this bad? Especially during the pandemic, in which they should have further entrenched their monopoly…