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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
How do you even define working class anymore anyway? With the increase in working hours, declining pay, rising cost of living, I think vast swathes of people who would define themselves as middle class (i.e. culturally) are actually working class (i.e. financially), but because people think of themselves as middle class they don't really think of themselves as being exploited.
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Because machines have taken over millions of jobs that people once did the exploited in the 1st world are harvested through over consumption. Obesity and drugs are the two main ways of doing this. Barrage them with an aggressively hedonistic culture that isolates and ridicules anyone who doesnt conform to it - destroy public space so they cant congregate unless consuminh then get to work hacking their neuro chemistry to turn them into junkie rats that burn themselves out scrabbling about for coins.
The rich today are already in some sort of early form of post capitalism and just printing money and passing it around each other. The rest of us are just desperately trying to stay on level one of the videogame while half cannibalising each other just to get by.