• @UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
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    64 months ago

    I read your comment, but I disagree that pointing to a common working class is “kind of silly.” It does not erase anything else you said. It’s just one category.

    The point is we all sell our labour for money, and we can never stop doing that - not how much money we get in exchange for our labour.

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      4 months ago

      I guess I wasn’t clear with that statement. It’s claiming that the recognition of these differences is a conspiracy to keep us down that I think is silly.

      I figured that would be obvious because that is what the tweet is about, but I guess I should have been more clear.

      • @UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
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        34 months ago

        I don’t see any reason to bring conspiracies into it, it’s just the way people are socialised to think of poorer workers as inferior, or workers with the most perks as the “betters.” I’m not accusing you of this, but it’s a part of the same dividing principle outlined in the op.

        Like I’m sitting at 6 figures fucking around on my phone while someone fixes my dishwasher downstairs, so I’m feeling the privilege intensely atm. I recognise there are real, material differences between individual workers.

        However when talking about class specifically, I think it’s very important that we don’t muddy the waters between workers.

        I think that’s what’s got people (myself included) riled up by your comment.

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          24 months ago

          I don’t see any reason to bring conspiracies into it

          This is my point. The submission is about this important recognition being a conspiracy to keep us down. I think that’s silly.

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              04 months ago

              So you think claiming that these terms were made up by the owning class in order to divide the working class is not a conspiracy theory? What is it then?

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                14 months ago

                An ideology which serves the owners and is propagated by they and us, for reasons both cynical and genuine. But ultimately, I believe, serves the owners best.