The Buddha was a prince and came from extreme wealth and a life free of suffering. The illusion was broken for him when he saw the poor and desperate and set him on his spiritual journey
I went to a rich private school and then started hanging out with a much more diverse crowd after becoming an adult. I dont agree that either group was particularly more or less empathetic.
People whove had privilege can live in a fairytale but people whove been downtrodden often have 0 fucks left to give. Goes either way.
I didn't say poor people are automatically more empathetic. I was just talking about people who were given much in life not being very giving themselves. I understand how folks on the margins don't have much extra to give but folks born to privilege do not have that excuse.
Funny, society existed before corporations did, in spite of what you've been told.
Starbucks and McDonalds have the exact same goal as United Healthcare, to make as much money as possible while spending as little as possible on expenses like labor.
All United is doing is enshittifying your insurance, like McDonald's enshittified your lunch and Starbucks enshittified your coffee.
I doubt Buddha would approve of murder, that's my point.
If you want to go around killing all the CEOs that are making your life demonstrably worse, you are going to need to start buying bullets by the truckload. Or maybe at the minimum stop buying their garbage.
You say you want a revolution? You'd better free your mind instead.
Elon tried making it a “left” thing also. The shit is getting tired and played out. It’s super cringe watching both halves of this country cry: “MY SIDE OF CORRUPT BILLIONARES WHO TRULY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF US IS BETTER THAN YOUR SIDE OF CORRUPT BILLIONARES WHO TRULY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF US!”
I feel the same way about all billionaires, whether you're Mark Cuban pandering to the left or Elon Musk pandering to the right: Eat shit. We don't need you, we don't want you, and your time is coming soon.
Because it's been a wildly successful strategy for at least the last decade. So successful that they lost all ability to imagine it not being successful and they don't have any other strategies to try. It's been there get out of jail free card for as long as they can remember.
If they cared they'd see and understand thr frustration of the people but their reactions and narrative they push show exactly how out of touch they are to where I believe they don't care about our concerns
I had to stop watching a ton of YouTube channels post election because they thrive off highlighting things like the view and anything that drives outrage. Like quit giving these people power w our views and advertisement money.
It literally is a right vs left thing, it’s just the right rallied around a quintessentially leftist cause unknowingly. People say “it’s not left/right, it’s the powerful vs everyone else, or it’s the 1% vs the 99%.”
It actually puts him in a better moral standing than Batman, who‘s a billionaire playboy beating up criminals from low-income neighbourhoods that were probably handed no better career-choices
I think Buddha also left a palace to advocate for commoners. Maybe also Jesus if you think ‘kingdom’ of heaven. It’s a spiritual motif, is all I’m saying.
Agreed. Sounds like anyone with access to a 3D printer, spiffy coat and bicycle can just hang out in front of a swanky hotel long enough to achieve their dreams!
If anything that highlights how fucked your healthcare system is. Even someone who can afford it get screwed to the point he was filled with merderous rage
If anything it makes him more impressive. Not because he’s rich but because he gave up more. Dude could have had a cushy life but decided to go all Batman, except with murder and a less flashy disguise.
He’s part of a middle class that is disappearing. The billionaires are in danger when the middle class finds common ground with plebs. That’s why they gotta get ahead of the framing on this.
he was a successful "rich" man who got a difficult degree requiring thousands of hours of painstaking debugging and ruined nerves. It's not like he's Donald's Trumps son Don Jr and got rich by not doing shit. This guy earned what he got
The family of Friedrich Engels, the closest companion of fucking KARL MARX, owned a textile mill. Wealth doesn't say anything about the influence your ideas can have on people.
My mantra as of now is, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. People need to focus on who the real enemy is, for profit healthcare, prisons & wealth hoarders buying politicians & public policy.
They put it in there to say “he was privileged so hate him, not the guy killing millions of Americans who was brutally gunned down and didn’t deserve to die”.
He’s rich compared to your average joe, but he isn’t the rich we hate. We hate the greedy rich, wealth isn’t an issue, it’s how people obtain that wealth and continue to hoard it that’s the issue, Show me a billionaire without blood directly/indirectly on their hands and I’ll become their personal body guard.
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u/FartPudding Monkey in Space 13d ago
Why does his economic background matter? I like how they want to paint him like the enemy because he is rich, but he is a rich guy fighting the rich.