• Erasmus@lemmy.world
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    Because the rich are smart enough to keep the working class divided and fighting between themselves, never realizing who the real enemy is causing all their pain.

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      Besides, all the poor folks have to do is pull themselves up by their bootstraps and they too can feel like they are better than everyone else.

  • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’ll bite:

    most societies have more than 2 classes

    The UK has a strong social and cultural difference between working, middle and upper class.

    India and others have a caste system

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      Lrrr’s question applies to any number of classes. Though you could make a point that it only works if one class is larger than all others combined

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    Because what we can do to destroy them is called a crime, while what they can do to destroy us is called capitalism

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    Do you have any idea how full of microplastics, toxins, and artificial dyes they are? Eat them? Geez, I wouldn’t eat food grown in their compost.

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    “The Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells’ era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively.”

    “(The Time Traveller) realizes that the Morlocks control and feed upon the Eloi.”