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> privileged...resort...great pay with benefits...privilege...entitlement....whiny and out of touch

The post was written by someone who works about the management and shareholders of corporations. If privilege and entitlement are qualities of the people working on death marches at companies the DOJ said were illegally colluding to keep wages down, then what are the qualities of the heirs collecting dividends from these companies - expropriating the wealth of the surplus labor time of those creating the wealth. The system is the creation of heirs who never worked a day in your life, but you make the case of the parasites - that those actually working and creating wealth are the ones who are entitles, privileged etc.

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Jay Gould once bragged he could get one half of the working class to kill the other.

It does seem to be a feature of the American working classes that they are led to be persistently, easily and even violently divided over wedge issues. Abortion, gender, race, "coastal elites" vs. "flyover country", millenial vs boomer, heck, or even, as in this case, "1 paycheck away from bankruptcy vs. financially stable".

You'd think illegal collusion over wage suppression would unite people who... earn wages but it doesnt seem to. Not in the same way belonging to, say, an arbitrarily advertiser defined age cohort does.

Which is really weird if you step out of American culture and look at it from the outside for a bit.

Maybe this is what Marx was referring to when he talked about a lack of class consciousness.

You can now add: mask vs maskless, pro vs anti-lockdown, vaxxed vs unvaxxed.

> Maybe this is what Marx was referring to when he talked about a lack of class consciousness.

All these ideological movements such as communism, inquisition or social justice warriors subserve the individual to the collective struggle, usually by force. Who loves to be spoon fed propaganda or cancelled "for the success of the greater cause"? They attack their own people even more viciously than the others for crimes such as original thinking which is nothing else than heresy to them. They reject the very basis of debate and logic-based reasoning, preferring to spread stories with emotional appeal and moral judgements instead. They cause a chilling effect on society, people live in fear of being persecuted for any reason, learn to be docile and lack the courage to change anything.

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