Gregory's ServerWhat shared interests or common values can be shared between us (who are wage-earning non-1%ers - even those of us who might be on a really ad hoc and sketch upper-income scale)?
What shared values hold us and the rich together....other than envy or greed?
Merit? Nah. Merit doesn't exist. And merit doesn't justify hoarding.
Ambition? Nah. Ambition to acquire money is just....greed. Ambition to improve the world? Do the rich do that? I don't think the actual historical or research record shows that.
Political bonds? Nope.
Ideological bonds? Def not.
Caping for the wealthy makes no sense to me.
Ah. Humanity.
The call for empathy for a shared humanity.
The rich are people, too!
Ok. I'll concede that.
They are people. Someone probably loves them.
But here's where my religious upbringing comes up:
It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.
Jesus hung out with all sorts of people: tax collectors, whores, fishermen, the lame, the ordinary. But he was pretty clear about what rich folk were supposed to do. Not hoarding their wealth is one of them.
And allllll the things that make our society a heaping pile of flaming garbage - income inequality, inaccessible healthcare, blighted public education, environmental crisis - can be solved if the resources currently being hoarded by the 1% were put to work for the common good.
So yeah. They're people -- but what kind?
Ah. Humanity.
The call for empathy for a shared humanity.
The rich are people, too!
Ok. I'll concede that.
They are people. Someone probably loves them.
But here's where my religious upbringing comes up:
It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.