Sure but we must ask how much should you be able to afford in this position?
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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People will point out that it makes more sense to punch up than to punch down but the later is significantly easier and better paid.
Punching down gives the monkey brain that sweet squirt of dominance when you see the suffering of your subject. Punching up is unrewarding because you don't get results unless everyone else does it, and then you have to share the victory with everyone else.
Focusing your wrath where it belongs doesn't make the million year old monkey brain squirt the reward chemicals.
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their con man idols tell them that the reason their lives are shitty is because of the mexicans, gays, black people, women, librarians, immigrants....everyone except the people who are literally paying them nothing and laughing at them for it.
and the people are all too happy to believe it
I think a lot about something i read somewhere - "you hate every piece of capitalism but won't connect the dots to see that's the picture".
I have this conversation with people all the time.
Well... You ought to know to listen to your betters, too!
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But if no one has to struggle, how will we know who's beneath us??
Hint: we’re all at the bottom and there’s only another layer
Lateral poverty
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