| Chrkeller said: *shrugs* |
One of the things that just continues to be baffling to me is how many people in the middle and even lower classes, think they're "winning at this game". So many of the people that look down on the complainers are not living any better lives than the complainers.
This isn't Chrkeller vs the cashiers at McDonalds who "made a bad choice and aren't living a great life;" so Chrkeller should pay more in taxes to make up for their bad decisions. That has nothing to do with any anti-capitalist positions. That is in fact a bandaid for Capitalism. McDonalds doesn't pay their employees enough, because the owners of McDonald's are incentivized to pay their employees as little as possible. Because that's what Capitalism is.
When people are fighting Capitalism, they are fighting against that idea. Even the centrists liberals are fighting for "McDonald's should pay their employees more so that everyone else shouldn't have to."
One of the main points of left wing politics, isn't "people with money should pay for the people without money", but instead "rich people should stop taking advantage of poorer people".
While we are here, this feels like an incredibly important link to bring up. Survivorship bias
