If the government gave even a single shit about the poor, they would focus on banning wealth hoarding not wealth flaunting.
But they don’t, so they aren’t.
What they are doing is openly showing who they are and what they do care about (capitalists, on both counts), you not wanting to believe it is a different problem.
My best guess would be because the chocolate cookies don’t contain any chocolate, but rather just cocoa powder.
Might be the photo, but it looks to me like top is vanilla cookie with choc-chip, while bottom is chocolate cookie with choc-chip, making it “double” chocolate.
Definitely could be clearer, but I don’t think they’re making the claim you think they are.
Exactly…
Victimhood is like an accessory to them, put it on when they need a little pity party, or to socialise some financial losses, but quickly take it off again the rest of the time and be free to enjoy their vast privilege.
Which is how they think actual oppression works, which explains shit like the idea of a “race card” and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps - they’ve genuinely convinced themselves that since their problems are mostly superficial and easily resolved (or buy your way out of), so are everyone else’s.
Anything to avoid addressing the actual cause of the issue… 🙄
Let me just get out my worlds tiniest violin for these exploitative hoarding motherfuckers.
It’s either that, or the guillotine…
Or they could, you know, just give up their wealth if their suffering is so great?
Nah?
Didn’t think so… 🙄
That, or they have a vested interest in continuing to perpetuate it and keep it “alive”, like the owners of this publication clearly do.
Anyone who still believes in, never mind promotes the lie that is (and always has been) the “American dream” should be categorically ignored, if not publicly chastised.
So you’re annoyed that someone (who took the time to go to a charity shop, list the book online, and ship it to you) charged you the RRP for the book, that you didn’t have to buy from them?
I hope you have the same kind of energy for when mega-corporations charge anything from tens to thousands of pounds for products that often cost single pounds or even pennies to manufacture (due to underpaying for labour and materials that were in turn manufactured by underpaid labour as well), and the snowballing impact they have on the rest of the economy (by pricing out smaller companies, monopolising industries, avoiding tax, and so on).
The person you bought this from likely works for themsleves, trolling charity shops all day for bargains, and almost certainly pays tax on their income. I’m as anti-capitalist as they get, but even I can’t take issue with this. If they had charged you more than the RRP, sure, that’d pushing it, but if you didn’t want to pay full price, you should have spent your own time looking for the bargain. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Or one can aim to abolish the entire system instead of applying band aids to the cancer that it is and and pin all of your hopes on them sticking (not even fixing anything, just… sticking)…
If only they hadn’t criminalised abortion, and consistently cut funding to sex education and instead funded shit like “Crisis pregnancy centers”.
Get your head out of your ass.
And before anyone even tries - I have no kids and want no kids, but to answer this bullshit with “don’t have kids” is unhelpful at the very least, and actively licking boot at worst. These problems are not the fault of the people having kids.
Unfortunately this affects many more than just zoomer, fucking depressing either way…
And you really couldn’t say that without being an ableist shit?
a blatant attempt to get canceled.
Except “getting cancelled” isn’t a thing, the right will embrace him and give him the platform which is what he is actually aiming for, and he’ll be on all their podcasts, and sponsor their brands, and keep most of his fans and gain more, and create a whole comfortable living for himself from being a bigot, like so so so many others before him.
Just finished watching Praying for Armaggedon and my mind went straight back to my comment here about the crusades never ending. I know they probably won’t, but all the people here who see no issue with OP really need to watch this film. Everyone does.
Silly me, I assumed all people, those in the working class at least, genuinely fear becoming homeless…
Seriously though, what an odd way to frame it, but I guess when you look at the source, it makes a bit more sense that a financial publication will be spreading this kind of out of touch divisive crap, it’s not like they’re going to be honest about capitalism and the fact that people of all ages are finding it harder and harder to survive under it…
Honestly, that’s shockingly low, depressingly even.
As long as people, of all ages, continue to have any faith in the status quo (or in the possibility that “reforming” or regulating it is all we need), even though it is clear (once you look) that they should have none, they will not revolt, or even support a revolt, against it.
I hate to think how much worse things are going to have to get before enough people realise the system was never there to serve them, even if it makes them feel it does sometimes (because they’re a man and/or white and/or abled and/or cis and/or hetero and so on…).
According to these comments there exists some fairy lands untouched by inflation and food deserts don’t exist, it’s just those damn millennials and their avocados again… 🙄🤦♀️
The kind of privilege that enables for that level of detachment (within the working class) is already obscene, but then using it to literally claim other peoples’ reality simply doesn’t exist is just so fucking gross…
Maybe people should just be thankful they’ve magically managed to escape the global inflation and all the rest of the bullshit companies are pulling to charge more for less, instead of calling people less fortunate than them, liars.
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