Rich People Are Evil Because They’re Rich

teratomarty:

thepeacockangel:

Power over others provably makes you behave like way more of an asshole

Inequalities of power are destructive to society, to human health, and to human happiness

Capitalism is evil.  

I wonder if this is why Americans are so damn mean. Ronald Wright said, “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” That opinion is supported by the advertising industry (ten thousand get-rich-quick scams tell people they’ll be loaded any day now), and the credit industry lets everyone be affluent, if not wealthy (at least for a little while).

Americans think they’re rich, or they will be soon, or they deserve to be rich, and they mimic the mannerisms of the rich- including being total entitled douchebags. As we just had vividly demonstrated, the actual rich people have weaponised this by turning members of the working class against each other along racial/ethnic/religious lines.

How do we fix it? How do we get people to accept that they’re broke, and they’ll stay broke unless they upend everything from the Protestant work ethic to the way they treat janitors? I have the wrong kind of brain for this. I tend to line up facts and shout them at people, which has never, ever worked. Any brilliant chaotic good marketers out there who can tell me what to do?