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Your comparison of modern day tech workers to gentry is, in my opinion, surface-level at best. The landed gentry controlled far more of the political processes

Your comparison of modern day tech workers to gentry is, in my opinion, surface-level at best. The landed gentry controlled far more of the political processes than your average tech worker does which allowed them to capture leverage, capital and influence at a level we could only dream of. A much more apt comparison would be to todays billionaires who actually control the levers of legislative power and use those levers to make themselves practically untouchable. Just because you feel that people are being spoiled relative to their counterparts doesn’t actually give them real power like the landed gentry had. Just because someone has 200k in a bank account does not immunize them from losing their job, getting sick and losing all of that in medical bills. I’m sorry you’re sad that people feel oppressed but it doesn’t change the fact that people are entitled to feel burned by the wheels of unfettered capitalism. Yesterday it was the car factory workers that were told they were spoiled for advocating for themselves and now we rally behind those causes today so your line in the sand drawing around who is entitled to complain about inequality wreaks of a lack of historical context for how these struggles play out longitudinally.

tasuki 3y ago
I'd rather be a tech worker than the landed gentry you mentioned. Would you not?
- cristiancavalli 3y ago
  I’d rather be landed gentry since I think not having to work for a living would be pretty sweet. I’d also have to be cold heartless classist which I don’t think I could do. I’d probably die from dysentery though but I’m considering that outside of the question of “which occupation would you rather”
  - tasuki 3y ago
    Where did “which occupation would you rather” make it in? I was comparing the overall lifestyle and life outcomes.
    - cristiancavalli 3y ago
      Well your question was vague and not actually what you are referring to: it was a simple “would you rather.” I think the comparison is useless given that comparing the entirety of the life experience of people in two different eras does not actually contribute to a conversation around the core point being made here: having ridiculous levels of wealth is not the same as having a decent paying job in which you are still reliant on the income to survive and therefore are essentially tied to that opportunity of labor. A more valid comparison would be, as I pointed out earlier, between billionaires and any class of people who “have to work for a living”

tasuki 3y ago

I'd rather be a tech worker than the landed gentry you mentioned. Would you not?

cristiancavalli 3y ago
I’d rather be landed gentry since I think not having to work for a living would be pretty sweet. I’d also have to be cold heartless classist which I don’t think I could do. I’d probably die from dysentery though but I’m considering that outside of the question of “which occupation would you rather”
- tasuki 3y ago
  Where did “which occupation would you rather” make it in? I was comparing the overall lifestyle and life outcomes.
  - cristiancavalli 3y ago
    Well your question was vague and not actually what you are referring to: it was a simple “would you rather.” I think the comparison is useless given that comparing the entirety of the life experience of people in two different eras does not actually contribute to a conversation around the core point being made here: having ridiculous levels of wealth is not the same as having a decent paying job in which you are still reliant on the income to survive and therefore are essentially tied to that opportunity of labor. A more valid comparison would be, as I pointed out earlier, between billionaires and any class of people who “have to work for a living”