@Strandjunker Because then you can make the middle and lower classes fight amongst themselves and forget the super-rich continue to profit the whole time!

@Strandjunker They are caught in milieu in which self-worth is measured by net worth and everybody knows what you are worth. Having more than someone means you are *better* than that person but, no matter where you go, you end up meeting people who have more than you. So what else can you do other than try to get more so you can better than them? It's a never-ending competition that makes them stupid and mean ...

@Strandjunker My dad told me when I didn't go to college after HS-you pay 25% of your pay for rent(to him)-Not unfair. I moved out. Lived in apartments. No Cable. (This 1982) Ate IN-peas and noodles and pasta-too young to get at, tho. I had a 1964 olds. I Sacrificed for The Good Life. I invested my savings in mutual funds(low risk) Made 2x+ what banks pay. I've never done Starbucks or avocado toasts(but-avocado dips!!!) Save your money. Sacrifice. When you're old you'll thank young you.

@Strandjunker Because the media is caping for those who can, but don't want to, pay their employees a living wage.

@Strandjunker It's easier to pick on people who can't fight back (as easily).

@Strandjunker Well, you build your whole society on a system based on the mass exploitation of resources and other people, then it turns the people in a position to succeed in these endeavors into sociopaths (or perhaps some of them were all along) who start believing that the world would go to hell in a handbasket without them. They've earned their yachts, and they need these presidents in their pockets to keep the world turning for you, small person. That's why you need to buy less coffee.

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Because the have employees who believe that they know everything, while in fact they don't even know what " a living wage" is.

@Strandjunker The people who blithered on about lattes and avocados came from an era where a family could expect to own a house on the wage of one earner working a low skill job. They believed if hard work had worked for them, the only reason it wasn't working for their children was that they were lazy and wasteful. They ignored the reality that wages became stagnant while property prices exploded. They fixated on daily expenditure, which was embodied by seemingly expensive food and drink.

@Strandjunker Because when you grow up with everything handed to you, as all billionaires have, you have no sense of accountability to others. Those of us born to regular means understand the value of hard work and have learned lessons about how to treat others and building community.

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I think it’s about who controls the message really 👍
I’ve never understood why “the economeee” has to grow continuously 🤷‍♂️ Makes no sense to me. But I’m just a semi-retired engineer who went to a northern comprehensive state school.
The universe or at least the planet being finite for one thing. Endless expansion is impossible 🙅
There are people who are actually are experts in economics who say that continuous growth is not necessary. Not easy to find though.

@Strandjunker Because you kick those below both verbally and financially