BUT IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS!
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I feel as if that should be a burial goods video?
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How can a power structure have a right?
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One of the podcasts i occasionally listen to had this tid bit pop up as they were talking briefly about tipping culture in the US
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Capitalism is always built on exploitation, the degree and shape of which fluctuates with the times.
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Well, she certainly has a point.
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“Now admits”, as though she was keeping it secret. She just came to realize what needs to actually happen to protect the planet from climate change (as well as so many other existential threats and injustices).
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God forbid that a woman has stretch goals.
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Processed in a facility containing wheat, peanuts, nuts, and shellfish. May contain trace amounts of orangutan, pufferfish, and coal tar.
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While I agree with the general sentiment, it’s actually worse than that. That’s a pretty shallow variety. In addition to many duplicates side by side, there’s a surprising amount of brand uniformity. I counted at least 20 varieties of Sweet Baby Ray’s which accounts for nearly half the display, and I see several other brands with multiple varieties. In fairness, there’s also some non-BBQ sauce (hot sauce, etc.) in the photo, which could give the impression that there’s more variety than there actually is. What we actually have here is the bland corporate illusion of variety, or product differentiation, brought to you by Capitalism, which favors consolidation.
I’m guessing that this photo was taken in an area that is not very BBQ focused. This same photo taken in a supermarket in KC or Memphis or Dallas would be very different, as the expectations of the populace would be different, and market forces would actually have a significant effect. Not that the effect is important in a larger context, of course.
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Middle Class was always a lie to try to separate the working class into separate groups so that they’re less likely to work together.
Do you trade your labor for a wage? You are working class.
Does most/all of your income come from owning things rather than labor? You are the ownership (Capitalist) class.
Not that I’m educating anyone here, though…
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Indeed, I’ve been frustrated more than once by “white collar” “professionals” who think that a union is for “working-class people,” not them.
At the same time, though, I think it’s also been a useful (if yes, divisive) marker in the U.S. for different levels of wealth and income, and for the “lifestyles” that those who have more money than others can afford. “The American Dream” used to be a middle-class one (car, 2.3 kids, white picket fence, a suburban home that you (but really a bank) own, etc.). I’m no expert, but I don’t think that say, economists and social scientists who know what you pointed out therefore think that the term “middle class” has no practical utility. Maybe a goal of some of them is, nonetheless, to abolish the term because, yeah, it’s a divisive, capital-serving fiction.
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Re: Greta Thunberg and overthrowing ‘the whole capitalist system.’
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