Because most of the working class are convinced that this system is the best one, they just think the other political party and their voters are the reason everything sucks.
It’s really genius.
It's not even just politics either.
We are taught not to share what our wages are and to compete against and rat out our co-workers, all for the benefit of The Company and often the detriment of ourselves and other working class people.
I often see people vehemently against lower skill jobs like fast-food earning a living wage simply because "I do x and I don't make that much, why should they?"
That kind of attitude is exactly what they want you to have because in reality better wages for fast-food employees would force your employer to also raise wages.
They want us actively keeping each other down.
Unions are powerful because they bring members of the working class together.
Yeah this is exactly right. Last time a union went on strike in my company, I kept hearing from people "fuck thise selfish union assholes, they want the company to pay for their health insurance, and I have to pay for my own health insurance - they should have to pay for their own health insurance like me"
I always would counter "why are you mad at the workers fighting to get free health insurance? Shouldn't you be mad our hundreds-of-millions-a-day making company doesn't want to pay for your health insurance? They clearly can afford to but they choose not to"
What's funny is almost everyone that heard it phrases that way agreed they would rather we all get free health insurance - it's like they never even thought of it on that way. Seems the human brain is wired by default to claw everyone down to their level, like fucking crabs in a bucket
Most can't even comprehend what living without capitalism would be like. They can't comprehend montivations not shaped by capitalist ideas that gave been indoctrinated their whole life.
For some reason there is a large group of people who think they have more in common with billionaire parasites like Musk, Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos than the local beggar on the street.
In reality, well over than 90% of us are closer to the penniless homeless person in terms of net worth than a billionaire.
They are just apolitical, kek. I, being from r-ssia, was kinda surprised how many logical hoops ordinary people would make to rationalize not even showing support to corpo-rats, but killing people for money, being shot for doing that. Class conciousness needs a lot of work to start to be. There's none at this moment.
Have you seen them lately? All that Botox... Yuck
We only have to eat one!
One per year
The working class literally can’t afford to revolt.
ironically we have more to loose now than in the age of revolutions (at least in the imperial core). When most people truly had nothing to loose but theirs chains. Nowadays most of what we have "to loose" tho are empty platitudes, it's not bread and circuses anymore, just fastfood and apps...
Can't afford to exist though either, so surely doing all out on the one that might actually get change is the better way?
(that's more rhetorical, sadly I am well aware of all of the hurdles put in our way by the very system we seek to destroy, and that keeping us fighting for survival, and against each other, so that we have no energy or resources to fight those in power is a feature not a bug)
perhaps they are saving that for sweeps
Answering as an American:
Because the working class understands that “elites” are a necessary decadence and side effect of free markets, and they are fine with billionaires if it means those free markets enable them to live like a king from the 1800s, and they are not consumed with narcissistic jealousy of people that have more than them. Plus they understand history, and they see how class wars worked out in the Bolshevik revolution.
I consider myself rich AF, because I have a roof over my head, AC, and healthy food to eat, which is RELATIVELY easy to come by in America. Tradespeople like plumbers and electricians are doing very well in America, and if they are reasonably fiscally responsible and save their money well, then they can retire comfortably after 15-20 years of work.
Many people all over the world understand all of this, and they clamor to immigrate to America.
between 15 and 25% of Americans are facing food insecurity. 25% of Americans are facing bankruptcy due to medical debt. 10% of Americans have no medical insurance. 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
That is not doing well, that is very fucking bad. And no, free markets do not require billionaires. We can get rid of all billionaires and distribute the money to the workers who actually generated that value, and still have healthy and relatively free markets.
Careful, if you keep licking that hard you might choke on that boot that's standing on all of our necks...
Lmao its not worth even trying to explain to you all the many ways you are wrong. 60% of my generation is so ruined by financial stress that they "are incapable of functioning". My mom died and its unironically been the only hope I will ever have of getting a home. Cheers to late stage capitalism, where I make twice minimum wage and rent is 50% of my income for one of the worst apartment buildings in my city.
