Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.
Sure, if you want the extremely rich people who actually made you poor to write your narrative for them. Save your anger for the people who actually suppress wages and equity. Not people who just managed to carve out a middle class life by doing some job. Middle class people and poor people are much much closer in wealth to each other than middle class and the truly wealthy who rule this country.
I have plenty of anger to go around, there’s no danger of it running out.
Might want to seek professional help for that bud.
It’s a rational response to an unjust world, but more importantly I couldn’t afford professional help in any case. Which is, again, the point.
Rational… yup. No you are just a sad little child that can’t grow up
how is it irrational to get angry at worlds injustices?
You’re directing your anger at the wrong people. Pretty fucking irrational to me
Why not be angry at other poor people too then? They deserve it as much as the middle class.
No, they don’t.
They do though. Neither one of them deserves your anger. Be angry at the people who actually set up the system that makes you poor. Not the middle class who has as much to blame as the poor.
The middle class didn’t set up the system, but they love benefiting from it.
But even then, my main gripe with the middle class is their insistence that they’re blameless and they like to pretend they’re on the same side as the poor when they’re constantly supporting policies to keep the poor poorer.
Yes, the middle class benefits some form the current system. We want a system that benefits all. That doesn’t mean breaking the system for the people who live a comfortable life. It means making the system support a comfortable life for all.
And blaming them as a block is really stupid anyway because they don’t all vote lock step. These divisions along non-ideological divides are a silly distraction meant to keep people fighting people who are actually on the same side.
You’re right, and this idiot is falling for the rich people’s bullshit 100%.
How do you change a system set up to benefit a class that is completely entrenched around the levers of power, without tearing down the whole rotten structure?
Fuck you and your million dollar mortgage and your 2nd car. We are not on the same side. We just have a common enemy.
call me a skeptic but I doubt there is someone here with a million dollar mortgage and multiple cars that’s just sitting around, reading lemmy.
Like what, they’re reading a thread on lemmy on the way to a business meeting in their private car?
Like who are you really yelling at.
You’re acting as a pawn for the wealthy ruling class when you think like that.
What a useless bullshit excuse to be hateful and averse to any actual solution whatsoever
Never said I was averse to solutions. I can be hateful and also want to fix the problems.
Yeah the real way to fix capitalism is to hate people with 20% more money than you. Great plan.
I mean the middle class are pretty adverse to the solution as well…
Oh what a cool and hip communist everyone. Look so edgy
wow imagine needing to take sides…