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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Temporarily embarrassed non-millionaire mentality explains so much.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reductionist generalizations tend to, yes. That's their allure.

Doesn't make it accurate, though.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nonsensical reply, but since you obviously don't understand, I'll explain:

"Temporarily embarrassed non-millionaire" is a complete straw man. No one being labeled that way actually has the mindset of 'I expect to be that wealthy one day, so I'm going to oppose this in my own future self-interest'. People just like to pretend they do because it makes it easier to dismiss their opposition when you characterize it as nothing more than foolish selfishness.

It's intellectually equivalent to people who think 'reptilians' are controlling everything in the government. Yeah, that "explains so much", too, because you can attribute anything to that. No evidence it's actually the case, though.

Additionally, when someone says, for example:

squeezing more taxes out of the ultra-wealthy isn't going to make any difference until we change how wasteful the spending of tax dollars is, we already take in enough taxes to do everything we want, look, our average government spending per person on healthcare is the highest in the world, yet our coverage and outcomes are outdone by several other countries, no excuse for that

people like you and someguy3, in my experience, just respond with an accusation of bootlicking, because it's the intellectually-cowardly, easy response, compared to actually addressing the argument.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh wow, an actual reply, I’ll commend you for your honesty and kindness for once.

The issue that we, me & BarqsHasBite, witness of the 🇺🇲 zeitgeist is that their praxis for humanitarian issues stem from entirely selfish goals. Thus, the idiom “temporarily embarrassed millionaire/billionaires” comes from the 🇺🇲 Imperial Propaganda that has worked for 250~ years. Including the genocide of Native Americans that have never been reparated, slaves, racism, etc..

My personal challenge for 🇺🇲 sacrifice and actual praxis for humanitarian work has always been their unwillingness to demolish a singular deathcamp, seeing as they keep making more, for a whole generation.

It's fine if you don't want to attribute generalizations on folks, but macro perspectives from praxises can be observed, no? We don't see much selfless praxises in 🇺🇲 done at scales, esp. necessary in its descent to Nazism.