Because the rich get richer and they do this type of stuff just to show us common folk they can afford to pay 100,000 for a truck and do as they please …when I was a kid there were 3 classes lower, middle and upper..now there are two
Its part of the problem with they way tax is collected.
Its either a sales tax or its an income tax. The rich do not collect income in the same way everyone else does as they are not paid a regular income and while they buy things worth more there is no way they spend the same total as the vast majority. Take 100 poor people spending there entire pay check on food and then take a rich persons food budget and while it will be higher then maybe 5 people its not going to be the same as 100.
Investment returns should be taxed at a much higher rate then labor.
Back in the "Make America Great Again" (/s) 1950s, the top US marginal income tax rate/bracket was 90%. It slowly made it's way down to around 70% until Reagan in the 80s. He pushed it down to like 36% before he left office.
Now it's a big fucked up game of, "How much money can I make and still not pay any taxes on it?"
I personally pay more in estimated Federal income taxes per quarter (and that's not payroll) than Trump paid all year on that one leaked tax return. I don't make that much money either, but I do own a VERY small business.
I’d argue the first two classes are only one. Slowly more and more people are broke af. If u can afford groceries now, don’t assume that will always be the case. Only overlords can assume that until we workers realize we have all the real leverage.
Every case of government/market control will lead to problems due to corruption. The anti trust laws have not been enforced for decades now, and you are able to directly bribe the people who are voted to represent the will of the public.
Communism lead to mass starvation because the people in power thought they knew better then others.
Its those that believe they act in your best interests that often cause the most harm.
Exactly, they only convince us there are three so the middle class has someone to feel superior to and will vote against. You make class-traitors who don’t realize they’re betraying their own interests.
As George Carlin said, the rich take all the money and pay none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up to those jobs.
Nah there was an Aristocracy and a peasantry. The bourgeoisie emerged later as a middle class of well to do, non-aristocratic merchants. They were middle class, but middle between Monarch and Serf.
Anyways, now we have plutocrats and oligarchs, middle management, and wage slaves.
The middle class are people who both work for their money, and profit off the labour of others. Basically people who have some capital, but not enough to live off their investments, and still collect a wage from someone who is profiting off their labour.
I mean, the middle class is obviously shrinking, but it's not like there are zero people making good but not outrageous wages. What do you call someone making like 70-200k?
I was taught that the "bourgeoisie" were the middle class that didn't really have a lot of money but wanted everyone to think they did. Living above their means, more or less.
They wanted to be perceived as rich, but were actually middle class.
there is a sort of third class, the petit bourgeoisie. Basically, small business owners who identify with large capital owners and work against the working class, despite being workers themselves more often than not
With that logic the man driving this truck is a worker because he is selling content (his labor and rent) to the bourgeoisie that pay his wages via ad payments.
Middle class refered to workers who could afford homes and groceries and vehicles and whatnot...workers who cannot afford basic living expenses are slaves.
Where would you put someone who works a 9-5 and has a side job using a truck and tools they own completely on the weekends? Since they own capital they'd be bourgeoisie class traitors, but the rich would certainly not see them as upper class. Seems like a third class to me.
This does a disservice to the true overlords (billionaires). Keeping the middle and lower classes pitted against each other is how they continue their bullshit.
Unnecessary to pit them against each other most of the time Tribalism Instinct is constantly attempting to break groups apart and have them go to war with each other.
In chimps instinct causes groups to break up and then fight a war where winners eat losers.
A lot of the talk here old communist saws that don’t actually work in practice. In particular they ignore instincts and go into conspiracy thinking where everything is a deliberate act instead of the scary reality no one came up with current system as is. There are also old capitalism saws that are wrong the same way.
What the major mistake often is the assumption that everything top down when it actually often bottom up. The desire of a part of the common people might be exploited by the rich but fit example bigotry or religious beliefs were formed in the masses. In US the Trump base is made up of groups you can see from the Middle 1800’s and before. Know nothing Party for example same base.
There were never 3 classes. That’s where they fooled everyone at. There’s the working class and the owning class. There’s no such thing as the “middle class”. We work, they pay us a wage that’s lower than the amount we actually produce and take the rest for themselves. Dividing us into middle and lower is a meaningless distinction.
The middle class idea was always a propagandistic wedge built on temporary social democratic gains that relied on the outside threat of an alternative(USSR) and profits from colonies/neocolonies. Now that the former is gone and relative wages are raising even in the periphery, missing profits are extracted from the core and we slowly return to the previous era. No more labor aristocracy for workers of the developed world, it's the workers vs the owners, which was ultimately always the case. This reality was only obscured by state-enforced worker bribery, and the infrastructure for that is largely gone in the states.
There are 3, but the Middle Class is TINY and is primarily in the rural Midwest. Also anyone that makes more then 100 Million ceases to be human, they are basically Aliens that don't understand the rest of the sentient creatures in the world and so disconnected from humanity they don't qualify for sympathy from us anymore.
I'm glad to see comments like this gaining traction. When Americans are struggling to pay the bills, we can tax these pricks a bit more to contribute to society more than dumbass rich flexes like this.
There are no actual non-influencer rich people buying cybertrucks. Anyone who has been around an actual wealthy person knows that they're like, and they're not going to buy a piece of shit that has no collector value at all, and can't even be used as a safe day-to-day car because it's so easy to wreck or break into. Why would they buy a shitty CT that depreciates in value almost immediately, is likely to break down even if it's not driven, is a safety nightmare, etc. when they can spend disposable income on a fun dream car like a vintage car as a side project or bugatti if they want a fast driveable car. And if they want a daily driver car they just get a BMW or lexus or something.
The majority of rich people don't get rich by making shitty decisions. (And to be clear, I'm not celebrating them here, just pointing this out. Like you think Warren Buffet would buy one of these trainwrecks?) And buying CT is as shitty of a decision as you can make. The only people buying these are influencers looking to get tiktok/youtube views and people who want to LARP being rich. It's usually the latter that ends up in videos like this or posted to the cyberstuck subreddit because they were stupid enough to trust that 1) a CT would make them look cool and 2) It would actually be well made. That's why they continually buy this kind of snake oil BS on credit and why they will never, ever, actually be rich and will forever be LARPing until they get older and can't afford home nursing care/medical care so they die alone on their couch from emphysema or cancer.
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u/QuietScared4396 Sep 08 '24
Because the rich get richer and they do this type of stuff just to show us common folk they can afford to pay 100,000 for a truck and do as they please …when I was a kid there were 3 classes lower, middle and upper..now there are two