A Boring Dystopia

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Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. (lemmy.world)

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[–] PriorityMotif 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Rich people are more stingy than poor people, change my mind.

[+] Angry_Autist 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] jorp 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Middle class is not a useful distinction anyway, there is the working class and the owning class.

Your mutual fund, stock account, or even a small business might mean you're not starving and can live with less financial worry but then you have families where GENERATIONS of people can afford never to work in their lives. Those people are a bigger drain on society than the people on welfare or disability trying to get by.

Eliminate private ownership of the economy, period.

[–] Angry_Autist 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I agree.

How?

Cause the only way I see is through fire, and no one wants that.

[–] PriorityMotif 4 points 3 months ago

Organize as a collective and dilute power so that it's difficult for the rich to take over again.

[–] jorp 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there'll need to be some fire but you can also help spread class consciousness, join community organizations (especially if you're in a larger city, where there should be established ones), or start your own. Try to join or form a workers union.

Build relationships and spread these ideas in your community and we'll be a more powerful political force, move the overton window back to the left. Advocate for UBI and wealth taxes, support a global billionaire tax. We might not abolish capitalism but we can at least force the establishment to acknowledge the left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I won't. You are correct.