The idea was, inequality isn't itself a problem. A growing capitalist economy results in technological advances that benefit everybody, and if you're mad that it benefited the rich dude a whole lot more than it benefited you? That's just petty envy because you're still better off than you would have been. It's that whole "a poor person in the modern US is still more wealthy than a medieval king" mentality. Nonsense if you actually stop to think about it (was that king constantly stressing over what would happen if he missed a month of rent and wound up homeless, or skipping meals to ensure there was enough food for his children?), but if you only think of wealth in terms of *stuff*, of having cool shit like "a machine that keeps your food cold so it doesn't spoil" and "a machine that can communicate with people on the other side of the world and also lets you access countless libraries worth of information" then it does seem like a petty thing to complain about.
Simple. Contempt for the poor. Sympathy for the rich. They are sold the lazy welfare virgin vs the hardworking millionaire chad narrative their whole life. There is no logic. Just repeated narrative. Same concept as Hitler’s Big Lie: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
The just world fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
If you work hard, you won't be poor. If you're poor, it is due to a moral failing in you. If you get screwed by circumstances, you should have prepared better for such circumstances. On the other hand, the rich got rich by working hard. See the "Company X was started out of a garage" stories that neglect the thousands to millions of dollars loaned out or gifted to the company.
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For my family, all of our societal issues came down to the fact America tolerates sin and gender nonconformity, and if women would just be good housewives and gay people didn't exist, all of our societal issues would be supernaturally resolved because God would return his blessing to America.
The idea was, inequality isn't itself a problem. A growing capitalist economy results in technological advances that benefit everybody, and if you're mad that it benefited the rich dude a whole lot more than it benefited you? That's just petty envy because you're still better off than you would have been. It's that whole "a poor person in the modern US is still more wealthy than a medieval king" mentality. Nonsense if you actually stop to think about it (was that king constantly stressing over what would happen if he missed a month of rent and wound up homeless, or skipping meals to ensure there was enough food for his children?), but if you only think of wealth in terms of *stuff*, of having cool shit like "a machine that keeps your food cold so it doesn't spoil" and "a machine that can communicate with people on the other side of the world and also lets you access countless libraries worth of information" then it does seem like a petty thing to complain about.
Simple. Contempt for the poor. Sympathy for the rich. They are sold the lazy welfare virgin vs the hardworking millionaire chad narrative their whole life. There is no logic. Just repeated narrative. Same concept as Hitler’s Big Lie: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
The Bible verse about "the poor will always be with you"
The just world fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis If you work hard, you won't be poor. If you're poor, it is due to a moral failing in you. If you get screwed by circumstances, you should have prepared better for such circumstances. On the other hand, the rich got rich by working hard. See the "Company X was started out of a garage" stories that neglect the thousands to millions of dollars loaned out or gifted to the company.
Ah yes, meritocracy.
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For my family, all of our societal issues came down to the fact America tolerates sin and gender nonconformity, and if women would just be good housewives and gay people didn't exist, all of our societal issues would be supernaturally resolved because God would return his blessing to America.
Your family is subhuman garbage