Outclassed
In what might best be described as parody, a mainstream commentator took a shot at the NY Times excellent series on ‘class’, satirizing it with Marxist rhetoric.
If you think ‘class’ doesn’t exist, you’re right. What we have is the classless rich, the classless poor and the totally classless wannabes.
The rich know they’re rich, the poor are woefully aware of their plight, which leaves us the ‘confused’ people in the middle, the fools who think they’re on their way to becoming ‘rich’.
What’s the difference between a rich person and a poor person with a lot of money? The rich person owns something of value. The poor person will be poor once more after they’re through pissing their windfall back into the wind.
Ownership, it’s the only ingredient in the ‘I’m rich’ cookbook. Holding the paper is where it’s at folks. If the money flows to you, now you have something to brag about, not that you would.
Sure, you can make a lot of money but if you don’t have an asset that keeps performing even while you’re asleep…or on a trip around the world, you’ll soon be poor.
Yes, good citizen, the rich don’t measure their wealth in dollars, they measure it in percentage of market share and the number of people they employ.
If you can get this concept through your thick head then just maybe you’ll realize just how rich you aren’t…and never will be.
I’m sure you’re wondering why I’m always ‘bashing’ the wealthy and the first thought to pop into your head is probably, poor guy, he’s so jealous…
Which would only serve to prove the point that you don’t get it.
Rich = criminal. Can you get that? Does this make sense to you? Chances are it doesn’t because you’re still confused as to who is and who isn’t rich.
Movie star or sports legend = not rich. When their career fades so will their money. Now a Banker or a Tycoon is a totally different animal…rich beyond your wildest dreams and getting richer all the time.
Unlike people that go from nothing to great wealth (then back to nothing again, the criminally rich remain that way because their wealth is ‘institutionalized’. These people control the market for their particular niche and there is no way, absolutely no way, anybody is going to take that from them.
Short of a full-scale revolt, a radical change in the way things get done, such as is being proposed here.
The ‘problem’ with this kind of ‘entrenched’ wealth is that there’s never enough to slake its unquenchable thirst for more.
People that have more money than they know what to do with continue to pursue even greater wealth for fear of losing what they already have.
It’s how they go about doing this that the criminal part comes into play.
We need look no further than the current ‘war’ for a prime example of this. Billions of dollars are being thrown into a sinkhole of murder and greed and there isn’t a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Think nobody’s making a ‘profit’ from this? Mind you, it’s not the children of the wealthy that are footing the tab for this incredibly expensive debacle. It’s the children of the workers that will have to bail us out…if it comes to that, which is fodder for another essay.
Which brings us back to class. Since there is no such thing as class, why bring it up?
The class ‘distinction’ is a question of worthiness. The wealthy feel it is only the opinion of their peer’s that matter. The judgement of their ‘lessers’ is not even worth acknowledging.
How is it that one human being can so blithely ignore the consequences of their actions without fear of retribution?
Because once you ‘attain’ a certain level of wealth, the law can no longer touch you.
This you know to be true good citizen. The law flows from them to us just as money flows from us to them.
You don’t need me to tell you this isn’t right nor do I need to remind you that there IS something you can do about it.
Unite and reject.
Together we can save our species and our way of life but only if we act as one to dethrone those who have placed themselves above us.
Reject their false claims and take back what is ours.
All of our children will reap a better life rather than just a few.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
If you think ‘class’ doesn’t exist, you’re right. What we have is the classless rich, the classless poor and the totally classless wannabes.
The rich know they’re rich, the poor are woefully aware of their plight, which leaves us the ‘confused’ people in the middle, the fools who think they’re on their way to becoming ‘rich’.
What’s the difference between a rich person and a poor person with a lot of money? The rich person owns something of value. The poor person will be poor once more after they’re through pissing their windfall back into the wind.
Ownership, it’s the only ingredient in the ‘I’m rich’ cookbook. Holding the paper is where it’s at folks. If the money flows to you, now you have something to brag about, not that you would.
Sure, you can make a lot of money but if you don’t have an asset that keeps performing even while you’re asleep…or on a trip around the world, you’ll soon be poor.
Yes, good citizen, the rich don’t measure their wealth in dollars, they measure it in percentage of market share and the number of people they employ.
If you can get this concept through your thick head then just maybe you’ll realize just how rich you aren’t…and never will be.
I’m sure you’re wondering why I’m always ‘bashing’ the wealthy and the first thought to pop into your head is probably, poor guy, he’s so jealous…
Which would only serve to prove the point that you don’t get it.
Rich = criminal. Can you get that? Does this make sense to you? Chances are it doesn’t because you’re still confused as to who is and who isn’t rich.
Movie star or sports legend = not rich. When their career fades so will their money. Now a Banker or a Tycoon is a totally different animal…rich beyond your wildest dreams and getting richer all the time.
Unlike people that go from nothing to great wealth (then back to nothing again, the criminally rich remain that way because their wealth is ‘institutionalized’. These people control the market for their particular niche and there is no way, absolutely no way, anybody is going to take that from them.
Short of a full-scale revolt, a radical change in the way things get done, such as is being proposed here.
The ‘problem’ with this kind of ‘entrenched’ wealth is that there’s never enough to slake its unquenchable thirst for more.
People that have more money than they know what to do with continue to pursue even greater wealth for fear of losing what they already have.
It’s how they go about doing this that the criminal part comes into play.
We need look no further than the current ‘war’ for a prime example of this. Billions of dollars are being thrown into a sinkhole of murder and greed and there isn’t a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Think nobody’s making a ‘profit’ from this? Mind you, it’s not the children of the wealthy that are footing the tab for this incredibly expensive debacle. It’s the children of the workers that will have to bail us out…if it comes to that, which is fodder for another essay.
Which brings us back to class. Since there is no such thing as class, why bring it up?
The class ‘distinction’ is a question of worthiness. The wealthy feel it is only the opinion of their peer’s that matter. The judgement of their ‘lessers’ is not even worth acknowledging.
How is it that one human being can so blithely ignore the consequences of their actions without fear of retribution?
Because once you ‘attain’ a certain level of wealth, the law can no longer touch you.
This you know to be true good citizen. The law flows from them to us just as money flows from us to them.
You don’t need me to tell you this isn’t right nor do I need to remind you that there IS something you can do about it.
Unite and reject.
Together we can save our species and our way of life but only if we act as one to dethrone those who have placed themselves above us.
Reject their false claims and take back what is ours.
All of our children will reap a better life rather than just a few.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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