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We live in the information age. There's no excuse for this. Mfers need to google things.
And that right there is privilege gone unrecognised. Not as much of a privilege as some others, it's still the sum of something. You didn't will yourself into questioning your position in life, nor were you struck by lightning to do ao.
I mean if you earn 200 k a year, how likely are you to even start asking questions? why would you start asking them, isntead of thinking others are lazy bums.
And that's also ignoring following filter: is my salary (for example cocoa beans importer) built on child labor in ghana? You lose 95 % percent dice roll on first entry, another 80 percent on second one. Lots easier to internalise of "them being over there and i receive my salary over here" than to follow through
Maybe I'm just different from most people, but my family was fairly well off and as a teenager I still was curious how everyone else was doing. How do we "stack up"? That seems like a fairly common thing.
I'm a white guy, but I still understand systemic racism is an issue 🤷 not really an excuse not to. People choose to ignore it. Poor people understand things are better for rich fucks, and they refuse to understand things are bad for poor people. The wall you face when propagandizing poor people is the facts, with rich people it's their own willful ignorance.
i grew up poor and i didn't realize people were richer than me because i never interacted with them. i just accepted life was bad and it was for everyone.
only until i got to college i understood that i had been seriously fucked for my entire childhood and how much better your life is made just by having money.
what if you're not curious enough to ask those kind of questions? what if you just accept that life is garbage? because that's a reasonable viewpoint to have, it's valid.