Yeah if he has just made a bet with one of his friends over whether they could get from point A to point B without getting hit, it would just be a normal rowdy afternoon with the boys. The weird part comes in with paying drug-addicted poor people to be your victim instead of just it being a bet with friends. There is an aspect of financial coercion and classism, which is what makes it gross and what these guys actually think is fun about this scenario.
They could do this game with another one of their rich buds, but that hits different than coercing victims from the underclass “other” that they can all align against and laugh at. They would be “laughing with” their friend, but they are “laughing at” this poor man - and they only get their jollies from laughing at others.
Money makes you cruel, because it allows you to dominate and enslave others around you but feel charitable and benevolent while you do it
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I assume he used drug addict instead of homeless because he probably figured there would be more backlash.
there's a pretty strong propaganda push to make those two words synonyms of each other so i'm not even sure of that anymore
Yeah if he has just made a bet with one of his friends over whether they could get from point A to point B without getting hit, it would just be a normal rowdy afternoon with the boys. The weird part comes in with paying drug-addicted poor people to be your victim instead of just it being a bet with friends. There is an aspect of financial coercion and classism, which is what makes it gross and what these guys actually think is fun about this scenario.
They could do this game with another one of their rich buds, but that hits different than coercing victims from the underclass “other” that they can all align against and laugh at. They would be “laughing with” their friend, but they are “laughing at” this poor man - and they only get their jollies from laughing at others.
Money makes you cruel, because it allows you to dominate and enslave others around you but feel charitable and benevolent while you do it