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?
wait.
they treat janitors poorly in the us?
why?
why would they doo that?
Because we are a bad country that does bad things
I ended up stuck in line with a trunp supporter and his shit family and friends. Thwyw ere talking about how trump was going to deal them in in the oil deals he said he’d do once because one time they met him at a casino he bankrupted later that year.
Yeah the number of studies showing that wealthy people tend to be less empathetic, less generous, even care less about their pets… not good. Which is part of why i dont ever want to be rich because i know how entitled it makes people feel, and superior, when the cast majority of people who are rich today are rich bc either 1) they have no morals or 2) their family was already rich and they just got lucky (the #1 indicator of what wealth bracket you’ll be in as an adult is what bracket your parents were in which makes a lot of sense bc america is most certainly not a meritocracy)
I want the abolition of capitalism so we can all live super comfortably and luxuriously without turning into assholes
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 