𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒Nothing good about it
VaryagLeeches, because that’s what they are.
ChicoSuaveThe hoarding class
The one description in this entire post that is pretty accurate.
grrgyleThey do hoard wealth, but in another sense they’re constantly making money moves: shifting their capital here and there, to extract more value from various local economies.
Hoarding would actually be an improvement. Like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold. But they’re more like rampaging dragon that is never satisfied with its booty
They extract value from things until there is no more wealth, like mining an ore vein dry or bottling all the water from an aquafer. They hoard that value for themselves and leave nothing of value for others.
GrymEdmParasite, not predator.
littleblue✨More in line with bourgeoisie, the class term should be “parasitaire”. Hell, it even has Paris in it. 🤪
C’est Bon!
No it doesn’t have Paris in it :p
Ah yes, the famous city of “Paras” France.
Close enough for me. People pronounce it all different ways anyway
Or the exploiter class
I like this one because when I was really into MMOs it was interesting to see the birth of exploiter philosophy within the game. Then the positions that the exploited would always take when it was suggested we crack down on cheating was that they were being unfairly persecuted and their mere presence benefits everyone.
LucidlethargyYeah, predators earn their food, typically.
Wealthy people are almost always born with it… Just like many parasites.
I didn’t think I’ve ever seen anyone making less than six figures actually call them that
Call them the eloi
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Predator sounds too cool, also. Makes me think of those hunter aliens from the scifi franchise of the same name.
Why not dickbags?
Freeloader class
The handouts class.
ApyteleI don’t like the term sexual predator. It turns out most of them are just doing dumb (but obviously hurtful) shit to anyone they can find that’s weaker than them because they have no other ways of feeling empowered and connecting with other human beings. Actual interactions with them in a controlled environment where I’m holding all the cards are just laughably sad.
They keep trying the same petty shit, mostly to my younger female nursing assistants who are smaller and less likely to shut them down quickly (there’s a reason they often go after children). Fortunately a) I’m watching and b) all of my nursing assistants know I will drop the fucking hammer in a second I hear the patient is trying to perpetrate some silliness, especially since I usually already know from the patient history.
Predator makes them look a lot more intimidating than can accurately describe such sad little people, so I call them “sex pests.”
I was thinking the parasite class.
JimboI was thinking the same thing, predator sounds about as cool as elite
Although, just a little asterisk and footnote moment, it is technically possible to gain some level of wealth, like upper middle class, through means that are not directly predatory. Incredibly unlikely, but possible.
oce 🐆Incredibly unlikely, but possible.
I don’t think it’s incredibly unlikely working in IT in the USA.
There are some professions that are very well compensated because they’re still so hard to hire and retain for, but I’d argue they’re still undervalued on the whole for what they return for investors.
Also all of us in the global North are supported by a chain of exploitation of labour and nature that wraps around the entire globe, which isn’t our individual fault, but is part of the reason for our relative prosperity.
Also all of us in the global North are supported by a chain of exploitation of labour and nature that wraps around the entire globe, which isn’t our individual fault, but is part of the reason for our relative prosperity.
Good point
Thanks I’m pretty proud of that sentence
You used to be correct. Now, the IT have been traded for dice of errors. There is no correct result for anyone, though a few of the result will appear to be correct long enough to sucker the viral tricking the trade of humans for AI.
I’d argue that even very wealthy people who actually do something, like pro athletes, are getting paid correctly. If you’re one of the best in the world at what you do, then you should get paid a lot. It’s just that the exploiter class is still taking the lions share of the value they create… And “entertainment value” is dubious at best imo. But the exploiter class pays well for people to keep us distracted… I guess: don’t hate the players, hate the game-owners
Money is the Talisman of illusion that tricks the actual giving all real value for it"s essence of being the opposite…
I’m not sure what you mean, could you explain please?
I prefer the term “Parasite Class”.
Many think the poor to be parasites, but they are actually the opposite.
After all, what is the mark of a parasite? It makes the host think that it is benign, of no harm whatsoever, and in some cases it even convinces its host that it provides a benefit. All the while it visits the most harmful deprivations upon the host, right up to sucking the lifeblood from it until it dies a horrible death.
No other tranche of human society matches those attributes more effectively than the wealthy.
SattaRIPI agree, but I'd take it a step further and say the ultra rich are even worse than parasites. Parasites serve a purpose to the stability of their ecosystems. Billionaires just consume.
Even then, viruses are a crucial part of pretty much any ecosystem on the planet. If viruses all disappeared it would be the end of pretty much all complex life on the planet for a while. Maybe forever depending on exactly how crucial they are to evolution as a whole.
Well if I learned one thing about biology it is that it eludes simplistic notions as the one presented in the meme, so I get where you are coming from here. However I very much doubt the sudden disappearance of viruses would end complex life or evolution, since there are other avenues of intra-species mutation and inter-species gene transfer. It would doubtlessly upset the balance of pretty much every existing ecosystem of course.
That said, don’t overthink it, it’s just a meme about the (slightly modified) Agent Smith reference so neatly lying around in the parent comment.
I hear this in Andrew Ryan’s voice.
Psychoclass
EdibleFriendtarget practice
Real-life vampires.
RozaŭtunoI call them ‘cannibals’, like in The Internationale.
For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.
They contribute sometimes by creating jobs, so they can get richer and fatter while still exploiting those who are taking those new jobs.
jOb cReAtOrS.
Everyone contributes sometimes, even the brain eating parasite from Tsikander, stop being an apologist.
So they are contributing?
I’m not. Idk how you missed the harsh criticism in my comment.
Those who subsist off the philanthropy of the workers who build their houses, produce and prepare their food, and subscribe to their pointless rents.
And these good Samaritan workers do this for a fraction of the value produced, all so that these poor wealthy elites don’t have to engage in real, productive labour.
Have a heart. It’s a certainty that they would starve without our charity!
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𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮That feeling when you were randomly born wealthy and get the daily slander dose on Lemmy.
They must be absolutely devastated for all the critizism coming from social media platform nobody has ever heard of.
Well it’s a fun platform but it’s a little annoying the witch-hunt you know. It’s not like some of us had a choice in how much money we are born with
…and once upon a time, they didn’t care much what people said about them on twitter, too.
Flying SquidJust because you were born wealthy doesn’t mean you have to live like it or keep the money to yourself.
Yep but here everyone seems to connect the two and equalize together
I’ve never seen anyone here pass judgment upon someone whose parents are rich.
They say „eat the rich” „target practice” and such
Are you really so naive that you think that applies to people who happen to have rich parents?
Because they aren’t talking about you, they’re talking about your parents. If you become your parents, they’re talking about you.
What do you think happens with wealth? It stays. If my parents are rich then I am rich what are you even trying to say?
What happens with wealth? Ideally, it gets spent and/or given away rather than hoarded.
If you are hoarding wealth, as most rich people are, then yes, you are the one being discussed.
No one is forcing you to keep those millions.
No one except the very system that makes poor people miserable? Oh you noble grand standing naive person.