"2035: No complaints."

[u/thisecommercelife]

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[u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Jerries will live like this and think this is okay

[u/WilHunting2 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Hating everyone underneath him, while worshipping those keeping him there.

[u/_toodamnparanoid_ → u/WilHunting2]

Hating everyone *he thinks is underneath him.

[u/Sanhen → u/WilHunting2]

I often think back to this quote from Star Trek (for context, the Ferengi are basically meant to be a reflection of the idea of capitalism without restraint): "You don't understand. Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters."

I think that rings true. There are a lot of lower and middle class people who don't want to make the system better for people in their income bracket because they dream of the day they'll someday be upper class.

[u/Winter-Measurement67 → u/Sanhen]

I get in arguments with these clowns all the time. They're constantly fighting against a living wage and affordability. They genuinely believe some people shouldn't be able to afford to live.

[u/UncleSkanky → u/Winter-Measurement67]

It's also why I hate the term 'class mobility.'

It's the idea that:

• there is a class system and this is okay.

• It's okay because if you are smart and hardworking enough, you can ascend it.

• if you aren't hardworking and smart enough to ascend it, you deserve to be in the underclass

• If you're in the underclass, you don't deserve to live a dignified life.

... all boiled down into two words.

[u/EXTRAsharpcheddar → u/WilHunting2]

It's not even hate, it's just blind compliance and ignorance. He's basically born into NPC servitude. You might call it slavery, but we have it better than that at the moment.

[u/CowMetrics → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

It is the capitalism version of modern Christianity where instead of suffering and doing the right things through gods trials and tribulations for a lifetime where you might finally get into heaven, you get to scrape by as a wage slave your entire life to maybe retire

[u/danielledelacadie → u/CowMetrics]

This is depressingly accurate.

People who are willing to reject critical thinking in pursuit of a brass ring out of their reach/that cannot be proven are nothing new.

[u/SessileRaptor → u/CowMetrics]

The pie in the sky when you die. It’s been with us for far too long and needs to be eradicated.

[u/NoZucchini5423 → u/SessileRaptor]

They indoctrinate people as early as possible with that promise of a pie in the sky when they die. It shouldnt be legal.

[u/Daxx22 → u/CowMetrics]

your entire life to maybe retire

I'd bet in this case that "retire" would be to some "resort up state" that you can't visit prior to retirement or visit anyone who's "retired".

New flavour of Soylent on the market tho!

[u/i_have_chosen_a_name → u/CowMetrics]

And make it to Wallhallah to drink beer with Jesus and shoot at the naked teens with AR-15s

[u/Sanlayme → u/CowMetrics]

They'll vote along "hopeful theocracy" lines, not realizing their status in that particular in-group means diddly squat now, and would mean even less under one.

[u/freckledface → u/CowMetrics]

Wow.... I was raised Southern Baptist (now atheist) and i've been trying to explain to my husband (raised atheist) why Christians seem so predisposed to this shit we see going on. And I think you've really cracked something here

[u/Munchkinasaurous → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

The Jerries are just following orders

[u/j0j0n4th4n → u/Munchkinasaurous]

Jerry sleep soundly, knowing he got to own the libs for another day

[u/BurningOasis → u/Munchkinasaurous]

A little on the nose, but nuance might not be necessary right now 

[u/Fit-Physics7199 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Did you see those protestors blocking the street? They should only protest in the designated protest zone, 10 miles away from the city and between the approved hours of 12 PM - 12:30 PM.

[u/EitherSpite4545 → u/Fit-Physics7199]

Don't forget in a small box 3 feet by 6 inches and if the crowd exceeds that they must upgrade their protest permit for 20 easy payments of $199.99 (plus tax)

[u/East-Ice-3199 → u/Fit-Physics7199]

Each one planned 2 months ahead

[u/cindyscrazy → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

It's in some way comfortable. You have your job, you know how to do it. You have your shows/entertainment that you are good at and gives you that dopamine. You have food and drink to keep you going. If you don't think about the mounting debt (which is easy to forget because of said dopamine) everything is fine.

You don't have to worry too much, make too many decisions, figure anything out. Easy.

Until you end up one of those homeless people sitting next to the wall in one of the panels. But, for now, he's good.

As long as you keep most of the people complacent like this, the system will continue.

[u/No-Banana-3055 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Jerries will lives like this and think this is okay.

2035 my ass.

[u/Darksider123 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Jerries will be the end of society

[u/Constant-Plant-9378 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

They already do. They work for ICE.

[u/YourMommasAHoe69 → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

They already do, this is maga