I don’t know where you’re from but yes, Canadian and American conservatives at the very least are positive that if you don’t have money it’s because of your deliberate choice to make stupid decisions and if you have money it’s because you earned it. Generational wealth is a foreign concept to them and they detest the idea that maybe “unskilled” service jobs should also get a living wage. When they themselves don’t have much money though it’s because of taxes or woke-ism and also they’re smart for living out in the country where things are cheaper despite those places being cultureless hell-holes far from people’s families and friends.
It’s a way to justify their hatred toward poorer people and to not have to address the fact that maybe these rich people, including their own bosses, are taking them for a ride. Those comments pop up whenever someone who actually has a spine stands up for themselves and demands fair pay, probably because they hate themselves for being boot-licking cowards unable to do the same, but sometimes also because they make money for just being lucky that they had an interest in [high-paying field] and believe that actually they’re uniquely smart.
I’ve never heard people say that someone with money must be pretty smart.
Is that something American?
I don’t know where you’re from but yes, Canadian and American conservatives at the very least are positive that if you don’t have money it’s because of your deliberate choice to make stupid decisions and if you have money it’s because you earned it. Generational wealth is a foreign concept to them and they detest the idea that maybe “unskilled” service jobs should also get a living wage. When they themselves don’t have much money though it’s because of taxes or woke-ism and also they’re smart for living out in the country where things are cheaper despite those places being cultureless hell-holes far from people’s families and friends.
It’s a way to justify their hatred toward poorer people and to not have to address the fact that maybe these rich people, including their own bosses, are taking them for a ride. Those comments pop up whenever someone who actually has a spine stands up for themselves and demands fair pay, probably because they hate themselves for being boot-licking cowards unable to do the same, but sometimes also because they make money for just being lucky that they had an interest in [high-paying field] and believe that actually they’re uniquely smart.
It’s fucking tiring.