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It’s projection. “I’d blow it all on coke and hookers, so obviously everyone else will too!”
The people with the most money do the least amount of work and call everyone else "lazy."
If you have time to lean, you have time to blame the masses for your own shortcomings.
The people with the most money spend it on hookers and blow. Probably underage, trafficked hookers. You know, like Trump did.
They have the time to call everyone else lazy. We’re all too busy watching each other be busy.
I think it's also just a side effect of their place in life. If you have disposable income already, a few thousand dollars is more disposable income. You can't picture what poverty is really like when you're a few thousand short on bills for the year every year and so you have to give up meals etc to make ends meet.
Well, if only one person does spend it on hookers and blow, it'll be the only headline...such is our news media.
It’s worse than that.
Conservative ideology is based on the fundamental belief that society is a thin veneer over our base instincts towards self-destruction, and the only way to maintain the façade is with a strictly enforced hierarchy in which power is maintained by a ‘deserving’ ruling class. Conservatism was born during the bloody death of feudalism, in which Ye Olde Ruling Class learnt they must repackage their ideals tied in a bow of capitalism if they’d have any hope of maintaining their wealth and control.
It’s no coincidence that many of the same familial names holding power carried forward through that transitional period. It’s also no coincidence that the basis of much of that power is rooted in systems of religion.
The core belief it puts forth is that without a strict hierarchy in which every person knows their place, society will collapse into chaos. That if you’re ‘deserving’, the system will grant you comfort, and if you’re struggling and destitute, that is your lot.
It’s the ‘just world’ hypothesis, and deviating from it isn’t just bad, it can unravel the very foundations of society. It’s why someone like Obama being elected to the highest office was such an affront. It wasn’t just racism (though that was a big part of it), but perceived as a very dangerous subversion of the system.
The people who subscribe to this would disagree, and they can’t consciously articulate any of this. It’s in the subtext of their existence – they absorb it via osmosis, through their religious upbringing in the form of fables, and via cultural maxims surrounding family values and patriotism.
If it were just projection or logical fallacy, it could be reasoned with. But it isn’t and it can’t be.