I was just casually talking with my mostly white, white collar coworkers about drug legalization. I made an offhand joke about how nearly all my old school friends dealt drugs, mostly just weed, at one point or another to make ends meet.
Shocked silence. Mumbles. That weird pursed lip thing that white, white collar types do.
Luv 2 not be able to make friends at work because of a fundamental disconnect between our formative experiences. Luv 2 probably have just hurt organizing efforts because I spooked the people I’m trying to organize :deeper-sadness:
The dipshits in the upper class can’t even comprehend this and keep pushing the middle class into the lower class.
because they’ve advanced the ability for the police to control people so much that they don’t need a large reactionary middle class to keep their rule stable.
Well that and the fact that unlimited economic expansion is running up against ecological limits. Faced with the choice between ceasing extraction and extracting from their middle class “allies”, the billionaires are choosing the latter.