Post #643136
2026-03-13 20:56 UTC
Replies (17)
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@NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me 2026-03-13 21:54
@viscountexx@goblin.technology @clarity@xoxo.zone Bingo! Finally someone who gets it!
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@icedquinn@blob.cat 2026-03-13 22:15
@clarity@xoxo.zone there was an old meme image about it where they re-sliced the cube as "rent seekers" instead probably accurate
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 2026-03-13 22:54
@clarity@xoxo.zone Pretty much why I tend to instead say bourgeoisie or capitalist instead of "rich" or worse "1%", even though I feel like that could make some people react badly.
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@64kb@icosahedron.website 2026-03-13 23:03
@clarity@xoxo.zone exactly the real class division is people work for their money Vs people whose money works for them
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-13 23:21
@clarity@xoxo.zone they wander amongst us - in this very place 👻
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@ianrogers@mstdn.social 2026-03-14 00:18
@clarity@xoxo.zone If you're not an owner or management, you're a worker - but many who "earn high paychecks" sympathize with the management class and aspire to it. That's more of the issue. Of course we can get into the details of small business owners and entrepeneurs vs corporate C Level "workers" but it's the aspiration toward being on top of the shit heap and maintaining it so you might get your turn that causes class conflict even more than simple capitalism and rentseekeing etc themselves.
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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 00:49
@clarity@xoxo.zone true!
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 00:55
@clarity@xoxo.zone NBA players and Hollywood actors, producers and directors are all unionized
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@Robo105@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 01:32
@clarity@xoxo.zone Property rights exist because that is were the Epstein-billionaires make their money. Wage rights don't exist because that is where peasants earn their bread
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@unruly@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 03:40
@clarity@xoxo.zone Is all we are saying that there are the rich in the eye of the beholden and then there are the filthy rich in the eye for the beheadin? :mastodon:
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@LevZadov@kolektiva.social 2026-03-14 04:55
@clarity@xoxo.zone https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/116223029895690157
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@sortius@infosec.exchange 2026-03-14 07:49
@clarity@xoxo.zone I dunno, "the rich" to me, living in poverty, is basically everyone
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@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa 2026-03-14 07:57
@clarity@xoxo.zone Are you saying the converse IS true, though? That people with capital that generates returns are intrinsic enemies of "the working class"? Meaning that someone who had the good fortune to have some spare money, and the good sense to invest it wisely, the the second good fortune to have those investments pay dividends, should be the enemy of the working class? Or that if a member of the working class finds themselves in the fortunate position to have some spare cash lying around, they'd better not dare invest it into anything that's going to pay dividends, or they will automatically find themselves being the enemy of those they once called friends? 🤔
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@Quasit@kolektiva.social 2026-03-14 15:00
@clarity@xoxo.zone The rich are thieves.
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@Umbreon@donphan.social 2026-03-14 15:12
@clarity@xoxo.zone What about those in countries with mandatory superannuation, a system where an additional % of your income gets invested on your behalf (unless you decide to manage it) for retirement. Technically everyone under that would own forms of investor assets even if their not upper class. That said I do generally agree.
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@VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-14 22:32
@clarity@xoxo.zone The way I've seen it put that I think encapsulates it is that "it doesn't matter how much you earn, if you have to work for a living (y'know, like for a salary or sales), you're working class. The rich are the people who live off of the money made by other people's work"
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@holdenweb@freeradical.zone 2026-03-16 07:19
@clarity@xoxo.zone @frechdachs@todon.eu Which is why unearned and earned income should be taxed the same.