Wealth Inequality in America
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Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actua...

I know we don’t often have a moment or idea we can pinpoint, but this exact video made me realize exactly how fucked the current system is. Somebody showed it to me and that was enough to make me see just how disgustingly distorted my actual idea of what the wealth of the bourgeoisie looked like.

I didn’t turn into a leftist overnight, but this video never left my mind. The way it shows wealth distribution as what we believe the “ideal” vs what we think actual wealth distribution vs current wealth distribution is... was just so striking. It made me so angry. It made me angry that so many people I knew couldn’t get a college education, couldn’t feed their family, couldn’t pay their medical bills while this kind of wealth exists. It disgusted me. The video is very lib, but in a way that is extremely eye opening, and with some nuanced guidance it is extremely disturbing material that can radicalize people.

I just felt like it might be good to actually share some material like this because it is important to keep making people aware of reality. Reality endorses Marxism.

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    4 years ago

    showed this to a generation of high school us history students. i'm doing my part

  • QuillQuote [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Ahh I remember this one, it hit me hard as well

    It has a certain Lovecraftian horror to it. It has the pacing of videos where the camera starts pointed at a person, and then just zooms out and out and out and out and out and out and out and out and......... while the music swells

    • opposide [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It really does. The pacing is so unsettling and once you start the video it literally does not get a single bit more cheerful or reassuring. It just gets worse... and worse... and worse with absolutely no respite

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This series is really good IMO for summarizing Capital for libs in a way that's really easy to digest and nice and concise

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        The whole channel is great, it's basically theory for dummies and I love it because I am one.

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      people have been asking for digestible theory for years and this is the first time i've seen someone actually follow through with an answer.