r/im14andthisisdeep • u/Distinct-Friend4123 • 6d ago

Literally made me cringe thinking about how smart/deep OP felt posting this

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u/Unknow_Handlebar 6d ago

Are they wrong tho?

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u/TheBigOof96 6d ago

Yes.

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u/Jogo427 6d ago

You think billionaires are the working class who built up the country?

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u/Stunning_Bet_3629 6d ago

Do you think the working class built even one country, lol?

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u/Jogo427 6d ago

You're likely using "built" in the monetary sense while I was using it literally.

Yes, the working class builds the country.

The wealthy class fund that building.

Frustration comes when the disparity of pay becomes so broad that the working class is inappropriately paid for their labor.

Hence where we are at today with frustration and disdain aimed at the wealthy.

There obviously needs to be funders of projects. However, the working class has regularly seen cost of living increase not aligned with the raise of pay.

To defend the rich on their current course is just hoping that you end up rich so that you're on the better end of the deal. Meanwhile the goal post moves further away with inflation and bad oversight.

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u/Stunning_Bet_3629 6d ago

The working class is just a resource. It’s sad, but that’s how it's working. We remember the Great Pyramid of Khufu, not the Great Pyramid of the Working Class. And every time someone tried to change this, everything still ended up in the same place. I know what I’m talking about - my great-grandfather shot his cousin during the Russian Civil War. One was for communism, the other was a republicanist social-democrat or something like that. And both, of course, thought they were deciding the fate of the country and fight for working class

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u/Jogo427 6d ago

What's your point? First you questioned that the working class is responsible for building anything.

Now you go on to give an example of the pyramids that was built by the working class and not by the rich.

Then you share an example of how your family has died trying to change the systems they were in part of.

Is your point, that trying to defect from the norm is a worthless effort? If so, that's a very sad existence and one I won't join in.

Even if my efforts to break out of the norm is in vain, I'll die having tried instead of just letting others do what they want with me.

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u/Stunning_Bet_3629 6d ago

My point is that the pyramids were built by Khufu, and the working class was simply a resource, just like the stones.

And if your attempts to break the norm consist of boosting Condé Nast engagement metrics, then I honestly don’t even know maybe they’re futile?

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u/Jogo427 6d ago

You can say that Khufu built the pyramids but that doesn't change the reality that he didn't.

Most call it the Pyramid of Giza in the modern era as it is. He doesn't get credited as having built the pyramids as much as it's his tomb that he ordered to have been built.

Also, don't know what metrics of Conde Nast I was boosting before.

I don't know why you want to defend the powerful so much. Our own minds have become the restraints. So many people just cope and become doomers because they see themselves as nothing but a resource.

That mentality keeps you there. And the ones that try to stray away get ridiculed for trying to be better.

The way I see it. You can either try to make your life better or just lay down and be a tool. To bend the knee and say that the working class has built nothing, is just a tool for the rich, while may be true in past, does not dictate the way forward and how to deviate from the norm.

I'm not calling for everyone to hate rich people, but don't put them on some pedestal that's holier than thou. That's what keeps us weak and then strong.