Trump elected president

Sure, but many proposed “solutions” to classism seem to reenforce the more basic problem of the motivations behind having and furthering a classist society in the first place. By classifying people according to capital, we would be making capital a part of personal and cultural identity. In a culture where capital itself is a rigged game, this gives those some elites undeserved influence over people’s lives and cultural narratives.

Much of the ostensible purpose of the industrial revolution was to make work more efficient and reduce the need for toil. 150 years later, there is a society with people fighting for the privilege of busy-work which buys into the system of their disenfranchisement, rather than using this time to do the more important work of creating culture itself. The so-called “working class” should be serving and paying among themselves, with their own measure of capital, rather than clamoring to be exploited by the system of the so-called elites - who function as parasites while creating negligible real wealth. Nobody who is put into power over other people will fix it, because the paradigm of power over people instead of power of the people is the underlying problem.

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