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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

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[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

How are you (OP) blaming the "middle" class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?

I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world -4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Stop performing those services. En mass.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You get that they'll just de-professionalize those roles and let untrained, unskilled hacks and quacks loose on the general populace, right? I mean you want to have your kids taught by some goof quoting Grok, and your grandma getting her life saving treatment from Bobby Kennedy approved witch-doctors that's where you end up if the professionals all decide to quit En Masse.

[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Lol, too true 😁

[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

...so let people die, stop caring for our neighbours, allow ignorance and illiteracy to fester. Seems extreme and misplaced.

A better, less-nihilistic approach might be: stop buying things, cancel subscriptions, sell dividend-paying stocks, etc. Or even better: a general strike.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

A general strike is stopping doing those services en masse.

[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Yes, but it includes the whole population rather than a narrow sub-section. It would also send a much stronger message.

See what happens when CEOs and politicians need to wipe their own asses.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Who suffers the most? The vulnerable