Yeah, it sucks, but people who have a lot invested in the market start to prioritize the health of the market over the conditions their "fellow workers" are experiencing.

It's part of the reason why boomers tend to suck so much ass: they got it relatively good, the younger generations don't, but them reaching over to help stop millennials from drowning might get their clothes wet. So they blame them for not learning how to swim.

Just like how people who invest in real estate tend to care more about keeping property taxes low than what increasing it can do for all of us who are struggling.

Most workers don't even get those opportunities anymore.
Back in the day, you could work an unskilled job, save and invest. Currently, nope.
Your grocery store cashier might have an okay-ish 401(k), and even that's starting to look iffy, nowadays, but who I'm talking about is the person who does a skilled job, earns significantly more than their cost of living and then spends that on getting their 401(k) nic and fat, sure, but still has money afterwards to "diversify" their investments.

I grew up on a four figure income and I'm still under the poverty line, but I live surrounded by "comfortable" middle class pmc types and yeah, it constantly grates on me. Because their jobs actively make shit worse for those on the lowest rungs of the ladder, yet they think that all they need to do is verbally acknowledge it and they're golden.

They're still actively gentrifying neighborhoods, but if they hold a fucking Marxist reading group, at an overpriced hipster cafe, somehow it makes everything better.

Talking about how they deserve the guillotine because they work a job exploiting other employees and get bonuses for it, rather than the actual workers doing the actual work, just goes to show how much they know they're not going to face any palpable repercussions. Because I highly doubt that same person would freely line up if they ever actually get built.
It's just acknowledging the problem without ever working towards fixing it.
It's lib shit.

They still call the cops when they feel "threatened" but they have an entire goddamn essay ready to go to rationalize away why this is different.
Or at least frustrate those trying to call them out on their shit.
If you push for higher property taxes on newer high income homeowners, or zoning laws to keep developers away from "expanding", they'll choke and stammer then push for some vague far off "revolution" instead, and ramble about how them paying higher taxes because they make an order of magnitude more than their "fellow worker" neighbors they're actively displacing is "non solidaristic".

Time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again, I've seen them talk about being proletariat and ramble about solidarity, yet refuse to offer anything but empty words to those "fellow workers" when the time comes for them to actually step up.

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I consciously understand them as sort of a new form of petit bourgeois, at least in function. A social class of people who are proles yet are also conditioned to align with the bourgeois. Maybe not a true class, in terms of their relation to capital, but their effects are still present.
Similar to how centrifugal force is a fictional force, but, even if it happens for a less intuitive reason, the effects are still there.
You can't just declare it fake, stand up, and walk off the tilt a whirl.

However, on an emotional level, fuck them for using their free time to dominate the left and offering nothing but empty slogans and signs. And fuck you for trying to enforce civility norms on the part of the internet I go to to escape it.