I agree. Unfortunately, I think it’s the best we have right now. The subtleties of who is and isn’t the bourgeoisie takes a level of brain power that the average person just does not have today.
On the plus side, most if not all billionaires are the bourgeoisie. And “billionaires are bad” is much better than “billionaires are good” which was the thinking in the 2000s.
The subtleties of who is and isn’t the bourgeoisie takes a level of brain power that the average person just does not have today.
Yeah, the subtleties of “whoever owns a business/land” or “whoever owns capital” or “capitalists and landowners”.
The hyperfixation on billionaires shifts the blame from the system and class society to the personal excesses and individual wealth concentration of those at the tippity top. It also completely ignores how billionaires get to where they are (what happens with businesses below 1 billion) and has the implication that they’re the “small guys who might be good as opposed to evil billionaires”, which normalizes and legitimizes the system. Besides, you can’t really focus just on the billionaires via reformism given how they own most of the power and can lobby the shit out of any bourgeois government, leaving anti-billionaire talk just talk.
This narrative should be actively fought against, not accepted given how it aids and reinforces the system.
I agree. Unfortunately, I think it’s the best we have right now. The subtleties of who is and isn’t the bourgeoisie takes a level of brain power that the average person just does not have today.
On the plus side, most if not all billionaires are the bourgeoisie. And “billionaires are bad” is much better than “billionaires are good” which was the thinking in the 2000s.
Yeah, the subtleties of “whoever owns a business/land” or “whoever owns capital” or “capitalists and landowners”.
The hyperfixation on billionaires shifts the blame from the system and class society to the personal excesses and individual wealth concentration of those at the tippity top. It also completely ignores how billionaires get to where they are (what happens with businesses below 1 billion) and has the implication that they’re the “small guys who might be good as opposed to evil billionaires”, which normalizes and legitimizes the system. Besides, you can’t really focus just on the billionaires via reformism given how they own most of the power and can lobby the shit out of any bourgeois government, leaving anti-billionaire talk just talk.
This narrative should be actively fought against, not accepted given how it aids and reinforces the system.
So we agree?
Idk, I took the “this is the best we got” as some sort of acceptance of it as in the narrative should be used and supported
You mean the “Unfortunately, I think it’s the best we have right now.”?