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Divide & Conquer (OC)
(lemmy.ml)
The irony of this image is that, on the one hand, you absolutely have the Blue Collar and the White Collar snearing it out at one another over who suffered more and earned the most.
On the other hand, you've got the Blue Collar guy doing 12-hour shifts to guarantee Mr. White Collar gets cheap energy and fancy techno-widgets and fresh food. Meanwhile, you've got the White Collar guy doing 12-hour shifts to make sure Mr. Blue Collar pays the highest price for gasoline and can't afford a cell phone plan and shops at Dented Canned Goods Store.
Like, you want to talk about class solidarity. But White Collar Guy gets paid extra precisely because he makes Blue Collar Guy's life worse. Then he pays Tophat Guy a hefty vig for the privilege.
Meanwhile, Blue Collar Guy is so sheep-dipped in the cultural propaganda that he thinks its some kind of privilege to pay a four-figure monthly truck note to commute to his flop house on a $40k salary. The only reason he wants that $50/hr job is to stack a bunch of mortgage debt on top of the car debt and the credit card debt. At no point does he stop and ask whether these consumerist babbles are benefiting him in a material way.
And neither of them seem to realize working harder is making their lives worse.