• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    If you just bullied the fuck out of people, maybe you’d be able to pull yourself using their bootstraps

    • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      That behavior is encouraged, and the circumstances that give rise to it cultivated, by people who subscribe to that worldview. Because it justifies their choices to throw the many under the bus for the desires (not needs but mere desires) of the few.

      It all comes back to exploitation; the rest is just what it takes to sustain it.