"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."
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.
Revolutiob in the imperial core will not happen im calling it
you dont always think it be like it is but it do
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.
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.
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.