i don't mean to like, get mad at imaginary leftists, this is squarely the fault of middle classoids making $50k/year who vote for fascism to continue economic subjugation of people making $25k/year. i'm just mad nobody stepped up to the plate to defend it, even the people who should have liked it. - ThreadSky

ryxcommar.bsky.social • 41 days ago

i don't mean to like, get mad at imaginary leftists, this is squarely the fault of middle classoids making $50k/year who vote for fascism to continue economic subjugation of people making $25k/year. i'm just mad nobody stepped up to the plate to defend it, even the people who should have liked it.

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vonneudeck.com•37 days ago

And they get so angry if you tell them that having a servant if you’re healthy enough to do things yourself is kind of icky.

One person got so angry when I said that my family stopped having serfs a long time ago and that I do not intend to start with that again.

themaltesemama.bsky.social•41 days ago

i place most of the blame the media for harping on about the economy being terrible for the last 4 years. many people only read headlines. new york times and washington post and cable tv deserve a LOT of blame for where we are at.

contextproblem.bsky.social•41 days ago

Laptop class revolt and lefties are mostly laptop class

deus01.bsky.social•41 days ago

Leftists obviously don't care about improvement in lower income people's lives but I don't think the future is necessarily so bleak.

A few things collided which happened to make the shock worse and it unfortunately coincided with an election.

We may not recover from that election though

deus01.bsky.social•41 days ago

Huge stimulus that went away happened to coincidence with supply shortages and the removal of shareholder subsidies for tech companies

pmanville.bsky.social•41 days ago

Excellent point

deus01.bsky.social•41 days ago

also people are stupid and not paying attention so they just blame the guy currently in charge and ignore the flaws of the other guy because he was on tv

blingdomepiece.bsky.social•41 days ago

Last election was pretty sobering, at the level of changing my fundamental level of belief in people. At least the upcoming Canadian one won't be so disappointing now.

walmsley.bsky.social•41 days ago

I was prepared for Kalecki's model to describe the behavior of bosses. pretty bleak that it also describes the behavior of workers.

emoscientist.bsky.social•41 days ago

Most Americans imagine themselves as temporarily embarrassed bosses, a trend that's been worsened by declining union membership.

regimecpa.bsky.social•41 days ago

Third world Maoist-Kalecki thought is the future, get in now

rev-avocado.bsky.social•41 days ago

"Mass homeownership and staggering levels of absolute wealth has created the world's first postproletarian society" is a take I'm batting around.

maxp94.bsky.social•32 days ago

I think this conclusively demonstrates there’s a concrete, definable class distinction between high and low paid workers

lavamonster.bsky.social•32 days ago

I think you can also argue that this fracture was deliberately created by the people who pay both of them. It’s much more safe for the bourgeoisie if the office workers feel threatened by the people who vacuum the cubicles at night ask for a raise, and vice versa.

notthegodofhammers.bsky.social•41 days ago

Wondering rn how many writers have written post-scarcity dystopias, where the technical ability to achieve abundance is there, but the scarcity is rationed out bc humans are just kinda shitty & fundamentally don't believe in abundance for all.

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•41 days ago

Turns out Agent Smith in the matrix was right. We absolutely would hate and reject living in a utopia. We just want to live in early 00s NYC.

khalid390465965.bsky.social•32 days ago

Settlers: The Mythology of the *American* Proletariat

cocktailchem.bsky.social•32 days ago

Not sure I could track it down, but I remember an essay about how the class divide now is between people who own assets (mostly homes) and those who don’t.

walmsley.bsky.social•41 days ago

I am pretty sympathetic to some version of "Americans are just too rich to believe bad things will happen to them" but I'm not sure about the specifics

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