The PC narrative that we've got going on is working towards being poised for a complete collapse. It's not at its breaking point yet, but it's getting there, and it's going to be interesting to watch it all unfold.
Meanwhile, the shit is profitable as fuck. Men are making a ton of money selling stupid shit to stupid people like "I bathe in male tears" t-shirts.
To which boost replied:
Originally Posted by boost
This little bit of writing, culminating in the bold, is pretty much amazing. You should pen a long form article with this as a punchline and shop it around for publication.
For the sake of simplicity, let's call the ruling class rich white men. That's not strictly true, but close enough. I'm going to break this up into a couple of somewhat-disjointed parts so that I can keep it as short as possible.
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Consider the following: Every single social movement that has flourished has done so because rich white men have allowed it to. They don't do this on accident: It's in their best interests and the best interests of increased profits.
Example: The only reason women were allowed [socially] to smoke is because rich white men manipulated public opinion to make it acceptable (so they could make money off of selling cigarettes to women as well).
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If you want to use feminism as another example, consider how many thousands of years went by before women were able to have any real amount of social mobility on any meaningful scale. Women didn't suddenly grow strong enough to get that shit on their own. It was given to them by rich white men who wanted to profit from it.
Who gets the most useless, over-priced degrees? Women by far.
Who carries the most credit card debt? Women by far.
Who initiates divorce (and receives alimony) the most often? Women by far.
Who receives child support the most often? Women by far.
* The point is that women are systematically given more and more financial power.
The list of examples goes on. What's really awesome about this (in the sense of it being beautiful how it works) is that the whole "men and women are equal" argument plays right into their hands. You can't talk about why women are financially irresponsible as fuck compared to men (on average) without having people coming for your head. Because you can't talk about it, you can't actually do anything about it. The very people who are the most vocal about attacking sexism (and other -isms) are the ones who are perpetuating it the most by protecting the power structures that exploit women.
This is the reason that there's such a big push behind the "pay gap." They want women to have more financial control because it's easier to separate them from their money. Men are the tight rocks and women are the loose fish (on average) at the poker table of life.
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Getting back around to something more directly-related to what you quoted in the above, if you want to look at how rich white men keep a stranglehold on every group, there's a very easy process to follow:
1. Consider what dumb shit that particular group blows money on.
2. Consider what perpetuates that particular group blowing money on that particular dumb shit.
Rich white men have power because they're rich, not because they're white, but they also have power because no one else can challenge them (since they never have the money to do so). People blowing money on dumb shit maintains the power of rich white men in two ways:
1. It directly gives them the money that they need to maintain power.
2. It indirectly keeps anyone from ever being able to oppose them because it keeps people from being able to develop their own wealth.
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This is why a higher minimum wage isn't the way to get people out of poverty. It addresses a symptom of the problem (ie: not having much money) instead of the problem itself (that they blow money on stupid shit). It doesn't matter what you change the minimum wage to because rich white men will just adjust and get that money too.
Capitalism isn't the problem here. Rich white men thrived in the middle of communism too. Capitalism without the influence of government actually offers more social mobility than probably any other structure that we could have, and that's why rich white men don't want that.
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Look at the wars we've been fighting basically fucking forever in different parts of the world. Why does it keep going on? Because rich white men can profit from it. Rich white men created the Taliban, and then they made a lot of money in the war against them. Al Qaeda, ISIS, whoever, it's all the same shit. The scarier they can make the enemy, the more they can profit from it. It's that simple.
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The Matrix is real (in this sense), and you can't get out. Even the king is confined to the board. You have to play the game because you are hopelessly stuck in it with no way to get out ever. You might as well learn to play it as well as you can in the brief time you have here.
This scene from The Devil Wears Prada (which is an amazing movie) exemplifies what I mean by this. After she realizes the above truth (that she's stuck in the game without a choice about it), she finally decides to try to play it well.
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If you want to make a lot of money, all you have to do is follow the path of rich white men. Find some dumb shit that people spend a lot of money on (or come up with your own dumb shit) and sell it to them. Take your profits and scale up your operation. It's not as difficult as you might think it is.
Anyway, I thought this could be an interesting discussion and that it deserved its own thread.
Rich White Men Rule the World
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
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