"If you're making $300k a year, you have more in common with someone making minimum wage than you do with Elon [Musk, the founder of Tesla and other corporations]. There are people that walk among us that have so much wealth, that even generations of mismanagement can't squander it. These folks you speak of are not those folks."

  • Prolefarian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Man try explaining eco socialism or degrowth to someone making 100k plus. They will never understand that not every single person in this country can own and drive a car 45 miles every day to and from work etc.

    Maybe if they're lucky enough to work in an industry that can survive the coming climate apocalypse but yeah.

    I know the deal. Working and owning class... but the working class in the USA is a different beast and I strongly believe we can't count on most of them to be on our side. Not to say we shouldn't try but yeah.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The future is completely, completely unpredictable. We can only try to be well positioned to take advantage of events as they happen, and maybe steer things a little when we can. Not saying it's fruitless to try to predict what comes next, just that... well, a fucking asteroid could wipe out the east coast and whoever was best positioned to restore some semblance of normalcy after that would be the winners.

          • Prolefarian [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            You're right. Its easy for me to get locked into looking at things from a certain paradigm but things are changing very fast and who knows what conditions will look like in a few months or years.

    • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The quote in the OP and this are both true. Unfortunately I think this take is what matters most in the end. Being paid PMC salaries is basically a bribe to keep those with tiny modicums of power from getting unruly in the imperial core.