- cross-posted to:
- memes@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- memes@sopuli.xyz
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Hey now. This just isn’t true.
Some of us are the supplies and game too.
Never forget some rich people literally paid to murder civilians for sport in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.
A bit over 3000 billionaires, and many more with hundreds of millions. But, yeah, this is the jist of it at the moment. We’ve agreed to work all of our lives to support them abusing us.
Hurting them or their vile kin would be unconscionable though. We must let millions die of preventable illness every year for their benefit instead. It’s the only civilized thing to do.
Ok, Trolley problem: pull the lever to kill 3000 people, or let the trolley run over 8.4 billion people.
Put an unmarked unmapped minefield around the lever, poison the region with forever chemicals that will be dling reproductive harm for 50000 years, and wait across the street with a rifle to make an example of anyone who tries to pull the lever, shooting them in the leg, cutting their stonachs open til their guts spill out, and letting their screams warn others. Anything else would be immoral abd uncivilized and make me a meanie.
It almost feels like something Douglas Adams would say
Yeah, the tens of millions of capitalists and small business owners who rely on exploitation and don’t think twice about their workers losing fingers if it were to get their profit rates up are the true victims here… 🥀
I’m so sick of the lack of petit bourgeois representation in memes 😔
The dogshit billionaire narrative is very much petty bourgeois, they got plenty of representation already
What?
The “eat the rich” aka hyperfixation on billionaires narrative as seen in the post. Turns the problem into some moral “some people accumulated too much” rather than being about social relations which doesn’t threaten anything, it automatically implies that workers + small and medium capital are somehow on the same side, and if the narrative had its way and billionaires started to get taxed (before adopting tax avoidance methods like family owned NGO’s) or somehow got removed in other ways, the newly freed minuscule market space would only benefit the smaller capital, as now they can temporarily take over before the capital’s tendency to centralize kicks in once more. Therefore, it’s petty bourgeois at best.
Unless this has some new meaning due to Epstein or something, in which case yeah mb, I don’t really keep up with The Discourse™ for my own sanity
Ah okay, I understand- we agree on this
Tbc, I was just making a joke along the same lines as gen x being left out of the discourse between millennials and boomers
But by representation in memes, I meant being directly called out in memes. I agree that the focus on “eat the rich” over “seize the means of production” can be bad, and overlooking the petty bourgeois can have problematic implications
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek thing as well though bc I belong to the petty bourgeois (although I don’t own capital or employ others)
I promise you, if billionaires vanished mysteriously, the world QoL would shoot up MASSIVELY.
yea ;(
