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Weird that it's always the elites to tell us that all is going well and we should stop complaining already.
by pastacacioepepe 4y ago
Weird that it's always the elites to tell us that all is going well and we should stop complaining already.
- evan_ 4y agoI’d probably feel better about things if I was getting $120k vacations for free. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/t-magazine/vacation-four-seasons-around-the-world.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/t-magazine/vacation-four-...
- frankfrankfrank 4y agoI find that phenomenon really weird, where things the ruling class promote or say is not immediately seen with immense suspicion if not outright immediate rejection and counter. There is simply no greater alienation and division than the difference between the ruling class and the people who do the work. An example; the ruling class promoting unfettered immigration and “Our Democracy” does not make people at least a bit suspicious of their motivations? Billionaires pushing immigration to import cheap labor? Billionaires pushing the populace having a supposed vote? But then again, this forum is very much a body representing ruling class agents at the very least, and it is immensely difficult for people to admit, let alone just contemplate that they are possibly not the good and great people they think themselves of. This YN forum isn’t all that different than a palace parlor where the aristocratic strata of the past who told themselves all kind of things about how they need to impose their ideas on the working class … for their own benefits, which magically happen to coincide with only advantaging the aristocracy. It’s really no differ than in the past; be it the feudal European aristocracy, the Southern aristocracy, or the technocratic modern aristocracy that is deceptive and secretive about what they need to impose on the commoners but not on themselves.