I think it’s mostly a messaging problem. People today assume if you work hard you got a fair chance at succeeding. I’ve heard this nonsense even from a friend of mine who was a single mom that went to college. She still thinks if you just do the “hustle” you’ll get by. I’ve tried to explain to her that her sample size of one isn’t enough to extrapolate on. She doesn’t care, she just thinks because people don’t put in as much labor into things as her are just lazy and deserve their misfortunes. That’s the narrative we have to break. It doesn’t matter how hard you “hustle” when Bezos and company got the economy under their thumb. It’s something that needs to be repeated over and over with evidence smashed in between the rhetoric to make the pain of that reality unbearable. Once the myth of the plucky individualist against the mean old world is utterly ruined then I think unions and mutual aid will become a thing again but not before that point is made.
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