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Nobody is getting divided. It’s perfectly possible to be actively in favour of higher minimal wages, social safety nets, universal health care, employment prote
by skrebbel 3y ago
Nobody is getting divided. It’s perfectly possible to be actively in favour of higher minimal wages, social safety nets, universal health care, employment protection rules etc while acknowledging that as a senior software engineer at Meta, you have it very good and are not suffering under any oppression.
The nice explanation is that if you’re doing well, you may be happy to pay lots of taxes so others can do well too.
The selfish explanation is that you want to live in a community with low crime and high trust, which requires a certain baseline living standard for everybody.
Only with the, in my experience uniquely American, idea that people can’t possibly be in against a policy or situation if they’re not immediately short-term personally hurt by it do you need this doublethink that tech staff at Meta are being oppressed.
- cristiancavalli 3y agoJust because someone suffers more than someone else does not mean that person suffering less is still not suffering. 300k yr in Silicon Valley with a family and with only one income is peanuts if you want to afford say, childcare that is good and reputable. In relative terms we are all the equivalents of servants to capital and can therefor be considered oppressed. Also your comment wreaks of solipsism: just because you think someone making 300k is in a good placed doesn’t mean they aren’t oppressed in some way by their employer: look at caste issue in the US.