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[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There is no middle class. There are workers and owners. If you own real estate and stonks you are still a worker unless you can live off of just investments. This is designed to corrupt and neuter you. You have enough skin in the game of the owners to not want to oppose them, but not enough to actually be them. Unless you hope to retire, at which point you make the transition from working class to owning class, but only at the end of your life, if you even make it that far, and often owning very little.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

"designed" is a bit much but it sure does play into their hands.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Having a comfortable retirement has already been tied to the value of stocks going up. And a while back republicans wanted to do the same to social security.

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