This is actually a fairly insightful comment into the brain of your typical American labor aristocrat / middle class white person. I actually believe Matt here looks around what he thinks is "society" and it does seem to him that everyone is basically doing ok. We're so incredibly atomized, it's almost difficult to see the broader society beyond our immediate social circles. Because Matt is part of the comfortable class, most everyone he knows is too. So that's what he sees. And media - both news and entertainment - only replicates this view as it's part of the superstructure that reinforces capitalism. I mean, how often do you see a show on TV about a working class family that's struggling vs a family with a dad with an ambiguous job and mom that stays at home yet they have a 3,000 sq ft house and money is never a concern?
Of course none of this is an excuse. Matt could spend 5 minutes online and find out that no, a lot of folks are struggling and our "healthcare" system is a nightmare. But that may cause him to confront his own views and at the end of the day he's just a momo with a twitter account so...
Matty is a political writer and “journalist” paid 6 figures a year to research and then report what is actually happening. Complete failure of a human being. No gulag, only wall
I agree with you btw, I just fucking hate this guy
Hal leads a worker uprising at a grocery store as well. And in a later season it turns out he's been skipping every Friday at work for years. True proletarian hero
This is actually a fairly insightful comment into the brain of your typical American labor aristocrat / middle class white person. I actually believe Matt here looks around what he thinks is "society" and it does seem to him that everyone is basically doing ok. We're so incredibly atomized, it's almost difficult to see the broader society beyond our immediate social circles. Because Matt is part of the comfortable class, most everyone he knows is too. So that's what he sees. And media - both news and entertainment - only replicates this view as it's part of the superstructure that reinforces capitalism. I mean, how often do you see a show on TV about a working class family that's struggling vs a family with a dad with an ambiguous job and mom that stays at home yet they have a 3,000 sq ft house and money is never a concern?
Of course none of this is an excuse. Matt could spend 5 minutes online and find out that no, a lot of folks are struggling and our "healthcare" system is a nightmare. But that may cause him to confront his own views and at the end of the day he's just a momo with a twitter account so...
Matty is a political writer and “journalist” paid 6 figures a year to research and then report what is actually happening. Complete failure of a human being. No gulag, only wall
I agree with you btw, I just fucking hate this guy
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Hal leads a worker uprising at a grocery store as well. And in a later season it turns out he's been skipping every Friday at work for years. True proletarian hero
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