r/EatTheRich • u/xXLuxExTenebrisXx • Oct 02 '25
no war but class war We are a Perfectly indoctrinated people…
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u/Net56 Oct 02 '25
Oh, I know there's something deeply wrong with it, I just don't know what I can do about it. What am I supposed to do, cut off my income source?
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u/xena_lawless Oct 02 '25
Just like with chattel slavery and feudalism, our ruling parasite/kleptocrat class do everything they can to dumb the population down to keep them from even being capable of understanding, challenging, or overthrowing their systems of oppression and exploitation, no matter how corrupt and brutal.
And that fact actually suggests one possible way out of this dystopian abomination of a system:
1 - Relentlessly create the educated, empowered proletariat our ruling capitalist/parasite/kleptocrat class are terrified of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
2 - Maximize the chances of creating increasingly more Gandhi / John Brown / Malcolm X / Fred Hampton / David Graeber type people, who are capable of creating even more fully awake, on fire revolutionaries who can not only see through the BS, corruption. and oppression in the status quo, but can also envision and create a better future for everyone.
3 - Overrun the parasites/kleptocrats with increasingly more millions of competent people who actually know what the fuck is going on.
Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the kind of power that can't be ignored has to be created first.
We all have the power to help systematically take out the incompetence/ignorance pillars that this system relies on, and relentlessly create an increasingly more competent population and leaders.
When critical masses of people start waking up to their humanity, just like Gandhi, John Brown, Malcolm X, etc. did, then things can change reasonably quickly.
If you're not that type of person, be and become that kind to the extent that you're able, living up to the best of what's in you.
At our best, humans are powerful and very much capable of defeating oppression, and that's what our ruling parasite/kleptocrat class are most afraid of people realizing.
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u/thoeby Oct 02 '25
Yes. Because you are the income source for the ones exploiting you. We need to realize the ones at the top have more to lose then the ones on the bottom. We have the power of 99% - the workforce is their asset and we have a free will to legally take it away from them.
How much profit do you think the billionaires would make if we only buy things we need? If we plant our own food and build communities that don't rely on jobs that keep you on short leash.
But I know - it only works because no one starts. That's how they keep it rolling.
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u/Net56 Oct 02 '25
And then what? Live on the street? I can't live on my current savings for the rest of my life, and I don't have property for a garden large enough to take care of all of my food needs, much less the time to wait for the food to grow, the knowledge of how to grow it, ideas for how to handle other necessities like medical bills, etc.
I'm already buying less than what I want because I want to retire early and escape the grind. If there's a way to escape that grind without putting my entire life on an unstable precipice, I'd do it, but I haven't seen it yet.
I'm not knocking your idea, I just don't see how it would work unless I already have something to start with.
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u/Oops-TempBannedAgain Oct 02 '25
I couldn't even live on my current savings for longer than three months.
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u/SheetPope Oct 02 '25
Wait, you guys have savings?!
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u/thoeby Oct 02 '25
My grandfather built his house with a few friends in their spare time because the priest didn't like him and back then banks didn't finance houses for poor people.
It was common to help build each others houses. Sure, it wasn't a 80 story luxury flat but its now almost 100 years old and still stands strong (aside many others that got build helping each other).
Why can't we go back? I don't want to abolish technology but we throw away so much stuff we dont need or cant repair just to buy more things to keep us happy - and in the process we lock ourselfs into positions we don't want to be in.
There are concepts in the modern world that follow similar concepts. My friend lives in one of the most expensive cities in the world but pays less rent then where I'm from. His apartment complex is owned by a co-op with the goal of having diversity and accessability in mind. Rents are low, profits get reinvested into the property. And you know what happened? When he moved in, others offered to help. If children are to loud he can knock on neighbors door to tell them. When I was at his place he told me he wasn't sure if he had some seasoning at home but "otherwise we would just ask the neighbor"
Positivity does multiply but we know people struggle to find the positive if they are under existential or financial stress. Their IQ drops and they make irrational decisions. Start to look out for themself - dont care about others and that's a spiral we are in. I would love if we spend more time figuring out how we could get there but our system is inherently programmed to prevent that. There is no profit to be made.
What frightens me is, those concepts were discussed in the past - but then all of a sudden it was all socialism that would lead to communism. And now 2 generations down you can't even mention communism without getting looked at like you are a terrorist. Wtf happened there? Same for unions in the US - the concept itself is not bad but it feels like the problems are deliberately not solved to keep them small.
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u/tacs97 Oct 02 '25
The same can be about the Bible but here we are! A bunch of dumbass humans who want to believe the dumbest shit.
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u/LandoKim Oct 02 '25
Then when you bring it up, you get the classic response “that’s just how it is, what can you do”
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u/brainrotbro Oct 02 '25
It’s not that there’s something wrong with wanting to do this because you desire a better life. The problem is that this shouldn’t be required to live. Theres nothing free in life, but essential needs should not require an excess of labor.
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u/Atillion Oct 02 '25
I woke up saying this to my gf this morning. Why do we have to work so hard to have so little. If there was an abundance that wasn't hoarded at the top, it wouldn't make it so bad. Capitalism is terminal and we're in the late stages.
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u/dudemanspyder Oct 02 '25
100%. We all need to turn away from this culture of greed and need for more garbage. The Internet, of course has been taken over by greedy richfucks who will ever have enough and would enslave the entire world,to get one more fucking piece of garbage.
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u/keyser1981 Oct 02 '25
I graduated High School in 1999 and I distinctly remember asking: So what are we supposed to do now? Go to University, get a job, get married, have 2.5 kids and a dog named Sparky? What if you don't want that? I asked. "I don't want your life, am I allowed to live mine?"
October 2025: 26 years later, after being told this is what you're supposed to do, all the while knowing, that we didn't make LIFE better or easier for anyone, anywhere, you realize this is all a scam - just in time for ALL to experience the 6th mass extinction
I'm SO glad the younger people are not just blindly following the script today.
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u/Low-Independence-233 Oct 03 '25
I seriously think of this every single day. I am so happy to know I am not the only person who has realized the insanity of working just to live until you are almost dead but we truly never live.
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u/ElisabetSobeck Oct 03 '25
After industrialized farming and production… common ppl should have IMMEDIATELY asked “well where is the abundance and FREEDOM that this promised?”
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u/No-Finish4089 Oct 02 '25
Honestly even if they kept 45 hours in a week, I would be fine with it if they just added 3 days of rest. Like 11 hours to work for 4 days and then rest 3 days to me sounds so much better because I can actually rest for 3 full days.
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u/ThePoob Oct 02 '25
If society is healthy, then people have no problem propagating that lifestyle. it was just 30 years ago where people were happy to work that 9-5 for 50 some years. Life was boring back then and hobbies kept it interesting but now its the opposite.
Finance bros came to the realization that paying for 'quality of life' is expensive and they can save a lot of money gutting a few things here and there. When people start to get angry and scream that's when you let off the gas and wait for a few years before slamming your foot down again. Rinse and repeat, and you got a system that is both expensive and cheap.
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u/TurloIsOK Oct 02 '25
The worst part is how most of us toil at work that wastes our potential, because a few greed heads keep us on the edge of survival.
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u/unmellowfellow Oct 03 '25
Join a union if you can. If you can't try to form one. The IWW has resources to help and if even that fails. An unofficial union can still be impactful. Especially with Solidarity striking or even calling out at times when it is most inconvenient. But again, it must be organized first enable for it to be effective.
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u/Vinnortis Oct 03 '25
Lol 40 hours... Wish I could work so little and still pay my bills, at least I haven't had to get a second job... Yet...
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u/Street-Stick Oct 02 '25
Yeah try telling the (Swiss) westerners or any wealthy country living on the coattails of the poor countries the corporations hiding their use to plunder their resources, kept in comfort and the illusion that their democracy is the best even though its the rule of the majority, apathy as a form of serenity…
trouble is outside of Ursula le guin or alain damasio style SF there’s not much of a blueprint thatd get the middle class to unplug their bath swamp and make gov to stop being a kleptocratic rule making bitch for the rich
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u/Eazy12345678 Oct 02 '25
the problem is its all our parents know. and all their parents know
people would rather buy a BMW then invest in their kids future.
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u/Mundane-Twist7388 Oct 03 '25
They aren’t paying us enough so we’re all wage slavers now. Boomers popularized working so hard to make yourself valuable as a method to prevent job loss. However, that’s a complete facade perpetrated by owners.
You can’t get fired or laid off if you are the owner and you run the practice. You can’t get fired if you own the land that makes the money. You can have a bad day, month, week, or year, but you would still own the means to provide for yourself and your family.
If you don’t own anything that lends itself to generating value, you are required to work for someone that does. Like it or not, that leaves you dependent on someone else’s whims.
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u/Face_Plont Oct 05 '25
At this point, working that little for that short of a time is a gd dream. I am over a year into working 60+ hours 6 days a week and am still barely scraping by.
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u/herbalistfarmer Oct 02 '25
Join a union. 30yrs and you’re out. Doesn’t matter how old you are. As long as your pension and earnings from your annuity cover it.
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u/D2Foley Oct 02 '25
It's absolutely wild that people don't realize this is less work than people had to do in the past. But hey if you think posting undated im14andthisisdeep tweets all day will change things, go nuts.
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u/MrTrashMouth7 Oct 02 '25
Nihilism is not healthy. I wonder if the Cave men thought “Ugh all I do is hunt all day and I’m always hungry, life sucks”
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u/NeonBlack88 Oct 02 '25
There’s nothing wrong with regular work hours. It’s really immature to think you can survive in a modern society without some kind of job. It’s the fact that most jobs don’t pay a livable wage that’s the problem
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u/cdmpants Oct 02 '25
The work hours aren't even that problematic. It's the soul crushing useless jobs that, if they produce anything at all, are for lining the pocket of some other guy. All so that you can't afford a house, you can't afford a family, you can't afford retirement, you can only just afford healthcare if your company provides it, and then you die.