Our whole thing is we want wealth equality but also a little bit of revenge for the centuries of exploitation carried out by the imperialists. It does not help our cause when we say that we want to get rid of peoples cars, animal proteins, generational wealth, etc and that we want the people that have been historically exploiting the rest of humanity should be the first to give up the treats. We cannot expect people to accept their own loss of privilege for the “greater good”, physical force would cost way too much, we need to lie. We need to promote a watered down version of leftism to white men because they benefit from capitalism 9/10 times.
leftism is not about mass revenge though, leftism is about throwing off the chains of domination and exploitation, and freeing time of the people to do whatever. (and if we take hickel work, tanking average usa consumption in half, we can still estimate that it wont affect like 60-70 percent of population if it occurs together with socialism)
It would affect everyone on this site since it’s primarily western leftists. Yes the majority of the world would actually benefit but everyone here would have to deal with the minority of people who would not. There are people in the United States who would benefit, but not the majority of the population, let alone the majority of the nonwhite population.
average usa disposable income is like 50k, which majorly comes from two upper quintiles earning like 100k and 200k respectively. Halving total consumption, while eliminating upper quintiles would not harm even average worker. (i thought i have seen disposable income somewhere by quintiles, but lost it). The fabled treats consumption is upper 60-70 america, but the middle quintile, earning 60k a year is not exactly swimming in it.