I once saw this in a smaller scale and it kinda blew me away. I had a friend who worked on construction for a small company with maybe 8 employees and their boss. He woked a lot. He made some good money, but not compared to the work they did. The boss took so much work all the time, that they sometimes worked from 6am untill 10pm. Saturdays as well. At some point he couldn’t pay them overtime, but promised to pay them asap. (And he did, but like 10 years later.) One saturday, we had some plans and i told him that i would pick him up at his workplace and we could go directly from there. When i picked him up his boss showed off his brand new mercedes AMG to his crew. And everyone was just talking about how cool his new car was, and he needs a car like that to pull his new huge boat. Literally no one was like: “waaaait a minute.”
I once saw this in a smaller scale and it kinda blew me away. I had a friend who worked on construction for a small company with maybe 8 employees and their boss. He woked a lot. He made some good money, but not compared to the work they did. The boss took so much work all the time, that they sometimes worked from 6am untill 10pm. Saturdays as well. At some point he couldn’t pay them overtime, but promised to pay them asap. (And he did, but like 10 years later.) One saturday, we had some plans and i told him that i would pick him up at his workplace and we could go directly from there. When i picked him up his boss showed off his brand new mercedes AMG to his crew. And everyone was just talking about how cool his new car was, and he needs a car like that to pull his new huge boat. Literally no one was like: “waaaait a minute.”
Peasant mentality has been ingrained into american working class.
There’s a scene from Treasure of the Sierra Madre that’s almost the exact same thing. Great movie.