Western mythology centers the petty bourgeois male as the universal human experience. Only in this fantasy can ideas like this have merit: all needs are effectively met, there's a surplus of resources, and people merely have to choose which luxuries are more valuable to them.
Of course the experience of 95% of people, the proletarians and other underclasses, is invisible. They're the cogs of the petty bourgeois pleasure machine, hidden by capitalist mythology.
Once in a while reality breaks through the illusion long enough for one of the spoiled children to get a glimpse at the underlying mechanisms. But they have no basis to understand what they're seeing.
Western mythology centers the petty bourgeois male as the universal human experience. Only in this fantasy can ideas like this have merit: all needs are effectively met, there's a surplus of resources, and people merely have to choose which luxuries are more valuable to them.
Of course the experience of 95% of people, the proletarians and other underclasses, is invisible. They're the cogs of the petty bourgeois pleasure machine, hidden by capitalist mythology.
Once in a while reality breaks through the illusion long enough for one of the spoiled children to get a glimpse at the underlying mechanisms. But they have no basis to understand what they're seeing.