Nah dude, the average person is like (knitting while watching guillotines) "whoa look at those heads roll, I might disagree with Robespierre about some things but his reign of terror is based"
Honestly if somebody's made it to adulthood without considering that it's only the powerful whose stories get spread in a way that's backed by any power, then they effectively hate poor people. I don't really care what's going on in their heads. When the chips are down, they'll be clamoring to round up "undesirables" and still crying whenever a rich person stubs their toe, all because they paid someone to write sensationally about it
Yeahhhh this com is a nice place to go to get away from hell for a second but you gotta remember hell is still a reality when you get back . Chances are the most lukewarm opinion about inequality is gonna set off a vuvuzeula 100 trillion button. It’s instinctive at this point
Oh yes. I've got a coworker whose daughter works at Walmart, and a while back she was explaining their points-algorithm for deciding when you get fired. Her concern was that her daughter would be fired for being in the hospital too much too soon.
I figured it was a given that she'd think the algorithm deciding whether her sick daughter keeps her job was dehumanizing - No. Nope, apparently Walmart has to protect their interests
It’s stuff like this that makes me cackle at anyone who uses the word “authoritarian”
Like, you clearly don’t care about authoritarianism if you’re not pushing back against this dystopian bullshit. I’m convinced that people, for whatever reason, just don’t know what’s in their best interest
Makes sense. The average person is a civility-poisoned centrist who couldn’t care less about wealth and power
Nah dude, the average person is like (knitting while watching guillotines) "whoa look at those heads roll, I might disagree with Robespierre about some things but his reign of terror is based"
Judging by the sheer volume of submarine memes in my work chat this is indeed the case
Oh but they could - wealth to them is evidence of worth. If you have doubts just ask them what we should do about homelessness
It’s all about the framing which is why media orgs are such a good weapon
Honestly if somebody's made it to adulthood without considering that it's only the powerful whose stories get spread in a way that's backed by any power, then they effectively hate poor people. I don't really care what's going on in their heads. When the chips are down, they'll be clamoring to round up "undesirables" and still crying whenever a rich person stubs their toe, all because they paid someone to write sensationally about it
I have bad news for you about the American people
I live in a very fashy town in the deep south of the US - They hate poor people almost as much as they hate queer or brown people
Yeahhhh this com is a nice place to go to get away from hell for a second but you gotta remember hell is still a reality when you get back . Chances are the most lukewarm opinion about inequality is gonna set off a vuvuzeula 100 trillion button. It’s instinctive at this point
Oh yes. I've got a coworker whose daughter works at Walmart, and a while back she was explaining their points-algorithm for deciding when you get fired. Her concern was that her daughter would be fired for being in the hospital too much too soon.
I figured it was a given that she'd think the algorithm deciding whether her sick daughter keeps her job was dehumanizing - No. Nope, apparently Walmart has to protect their interests
It’s stuff like this that makes me cackle at anyone who uses the word “authoritarian”
Like, you clearly don’t care about authoritarianism if you’re not pushing back against this dystopian bullshit. I’m convinced that people, for whatever reason, just don’t know what’s in their best interest
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