Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
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Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentialsI think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
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Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentialsI think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
@xgranade spot on.
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Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentialsI think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
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@stufromoz Absolutely, it's a very rough stratification with lots of room for important nuance. More just trying to make point that owning what you need and owning what someone else needs are two very different things.
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@stufromoz @xgranade yes, but...there's a huge gap in the wealth it takes to help others and the wealth it takes to own an apartment building.
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Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentialsI think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
@xgranade absolutely, if you are in the third group , guess who will be the next target of the people in the fourth group ? It's not all that difficult to guess and yes... it's exactly the third group you are in....
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Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentialsI think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
@xgranade yeah, well put. with that identified, it starts to look glaringly horrible how much of public policy is written in ways that financially benefit both homeowners and landlords, while harming everyone else.
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@xgranade yeah, well put. with that identified, it starts to look glaringly horrible how much of public policy is written in ways that financially benefit both homeowners and landlords, while harming everyone else.
@ireneista Not a complete explanation, but at least in Seattle I've observed that a lot of local politics comes down to homeowners voting for landlords because they think their interests align with those of landlords.
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@ireneista Not a complete explanation, but at least in Seattle I've observed that a lot of local politics comes down to homeowners voting for landlords because they think their interests align with those of landlords.
@ireneista Landlords are the unique economic class, I contend, who benefit from making the economy materially worse for the majority.
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@ireneista Landlords are the unique economic class, I contend, who benefit from making the economy materially worse for the majority.
@xgranade it certainly has surface plausibility
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