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| Karl Marx:
https://mronline.org/2017/07/06/the-shifting-politics-of-inequality-and-the-class-ceiling/ --- Quote ---"First, there is now significant complexity in the middle reaches of the class structure with a number of subtly different groups jockeying for position. It makes little sense these days to draw a clear divide between middle and working class. You can be ‘middle class’ in some ways (for instance owning your home) while being ‘working class’ according to occupation. You can have an insecure and badly paid job even when you might have excellent university qualifications. And so on. Second, at the top and bottom, there has been significant pulling apart—with a small wealth elite at the top counter-posed to a large ‘precariat’ at the bottom. The wealth elite has supped long and lavishly at the economic feast available to senior executives and experts, and now enjoys huge relative advantages over the majority of the population. As well as its very high levels of economic capital, it has very extensive social networks and ‘cultural capital’. It is advantaged in every way. At the bottom it is a different story, with a rather large precariat possessing very few resources of any kind. We need to insist, though, that this precariat is not the kind of ‘Poverty research’ stereotype served up on TV under the banner of work-shy benefit claimants; the vast majority of precariat are in employment, and often live in owner-occupied or privately rented housing." --- End quote --- Though this piece pertains to Britain, it reflects a global phenomenon, and highlights the indisputable truth: The benefits of economic growth are monopolized by the wealthy, and propelled forward by the reckless deregulation that leads to tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower incident. |
| Aide33:
I applaud you for going through with this act for so long tbh |
| Drydess:
seize the means of production |
| GRIMLOCK_:
imagine spending 10$ to discuss politics as karl marx on a lego game forum |
| beachbum111111:
Better dead then red |
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