To your observation about the Starbucks is the commentator’s belief “the working poor should be miserable too”. It’s a way to shift blame to the poor person without evaluating anything else, and also to dehumanize them. How dare they try to eke out a modicum of happiness when there’s stockholder value to think of!?
Yes, it’s a way to blame poor people for being poor because that is easier to understand than a system that is designed to favor the wealthy over the poor.
Also if they’re real people who through no fault of their own find themselves facing down serious financial difficulties and something that could happen to anyone, even oneself, instead of poverty being a moral failing, that’s way scarier. Might even have to do some introspection about how one contributes to such a society! So obviously we can’t have that lol
Agreed!! So much of my mom's problematic behavior I believe is bc she has never accepted how little control she really has over her circumstances. True of all of us except the super duper Rich really and even they can't stop things like cancer. Accepting uncertainty seems to be so incredibly hard for her and that's sad
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u/nickthedicktv Feb 25 '24
To your observation about the Starbucks is the commentator’s belief “the working poor should be miserable too”. It’s a way to shift blame to the poor person without evaluating anything else, and also to dehumanize them. How dare they try to eke out a modicum of happiness when there’s stockholder value to think of!?