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It's been disheartening but fascinating watching the Riches scramble to take back the narrative reins over the course of this nonsense
For a week or two in March they completely lost control of it, and suddenly ideas like "Why are we working so hard to benefit some rich asshole, anyway" and "Hang on, there's enough money/resources to go around if people would share" started to leak through
Suddenly the flimsy excuses for hoarding all the wealth, power, and resources for themselves started to unravel. It's all well and good to assure people that you're saving it for an emergency, but then what happens when the emergency arrives and you're not using it?
But then they rallied and made a bunch of pleas to keep The Economy open because Rich Assholes need more money or they'll...lose the high score? I'm not sure why they need so much...and they've obfuscated for so long the rest of us have run out of our meager savings and need more
And their argument is self-respect. Nobody wants to feel like a moocher, say the rich people who withhold their workers' salaries and give themselves bonuses, so we're not just gonna SHARE the resources. You've got to go back to work!
But there's STILL A FUCKING PANDEMIC, so people will die. Fortunately, they've got that whole Heroic Sacrifice thing covered. Not, you know, heroically sacrificing some of their stolen wealth by giving it back, though. Heroic sacrifice by YOU DYING AS YOU STRUGGLE TO EARN IT
So they've wrested the narrative from "Selfish billionaires are sitting idly by while a pandemic ravages the country and all of us exhaust our parachutes and are faced with dying of poverty or COVID" to "HEROES are working tirelessly despite the danger to provide, wow!"
It's a familiar trick to them, but it's still painful to see it happen again and again. And I want to point it out, because, y'all? It's still the selfish billionaires sitting idly by with their stolen wealth. Don't let them forget it
I've said the economy is like a game of Calvinball, but in this respect it's more like Keep-Away: these bullies are dangling YOUR MONEY just out of your reach and saying, "You want it? You have to come GET it!"
I have no idea if we can fix this from within the system rigged specifically to keep things this way. I'd like to think so, partly because I'm lazy af and don't want to have to knock down society and rebuild it from the ground up, but we might have to
