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The conception is there's a big pile of power and stuff. In capitalism the power and stuff is distributed in little tiny piles to everyone who wants to work for it. In evil scary socialism the big mean dictator hoards the pile and no one gets anything.
It's honestly fucking incredible anyone falls for this crap rofl
A lot of individual "forward progress" under capitalism is largely illusory when viewed in the greater scheme of society. You might go from a well off office drone to managing well off office drones but you're never, ever, EVER going to approach the wealth and influence of even smaller families like the ones that run state politics, let alone old money European families or freaks like Epstein.
I guess when you're comfortable like that there's no problem, but as someone who lives in California it's increasingly obvious to anyone with even a modicum of critical thinking that capitalism doesn't even work as promised. Why do so many people voluntarily chose to live on the streets or out of their car? If little tiny pile is there, why didn't they work for it?
The average person seems to have an entirely skewed view of just how wealthy and powerful billionaires are. Much less how powerful they are when they congregate on islands or at Bohemian Grove to plot their rulership. "Rich person" means your dentist with the nice truck and the $900k house. For too many people, that's the supposed promise of capitalism. A nice suburban house and a big car. It's being a small to medium business owner. CEOs of international corporations is such an unimaginable quality that it may as well not exist. Instead, they can only imagine capitalism offering relatively staggered income distributions that all seem fair.
People seem perfectly capable of understanding socialism as some kind of entirely horizontal poverty though. I guess they're able to imagine losing everything because some evil scary commie took it all. They have a hard time understanding the difference in stature between themselves and the ruling classes because it's so invisible and unimaginably vast. It's not so vast to be a middle management dork and imagine becoming broke.
I like to put it like this, because this is one of the things that helped radicalize me: If you gave the earliest ancestor of homo sapiens (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING THOUSAND YEARS AGO) the median American salary according to census.gov (68,000~) and they did NOT ever spend a cent, they would still fall short a fair chunk of Bezos accumulated wealth. If I'm figuring this right (given an average lifespan of 70ish years) in less than a few decades Bezos has accumulated more wealth than someone in over 3500 lifetimes could do if they did EVERYTHING perfectly.
It's fucking craaay-zeee :liz-society: