It’s expensive to be poor. It’s harder to get out poverty than to be born wealthy with family that has connections and opportunities. Spend your money extremely wisely, because it’s the real way we vote in this system.
I’ve asked myself the question a lot lately, “What am I spending money on that’s a waste perpetuating this broken system which I could stop spending today?”
The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down. If you need a clear example, just look at a casino.
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You’re right about almost everything!
Spend your money extremely wisely, because it’s the real way we vote
Your power is derived from your labor (and your ability to withhold it), not from your consumption. Going on strike/protesting as part of an organized effort is when you discover your true power.
The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down.
The only way for us to rise is for us to collectivize and smash this exploitative system into pieces. We can do it. We have to.
Labor may be the source of your power, but consumption is how you fritter it away. Trade your labor for subscription plans, little conveniences that prop up the oligarchs, big luxuries like fancy car or home, and you lose your ability to withhold your labor in safety.
Withholding your labor only works if you can recruit a lot of like-minded people, each with their own safe ability to withhold labor. We can get there eventually, but you have to start with yourself.
Should be Vimes’ Boots Theory, GNU Terry Pratchett. Many have said it, but he kicked it right in the nuts.
The opening sentence is “the Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory”
Didn’t say Pratchett’s Boots theory, he was way too modest. I just personally think he’s likely one of the best satirists of his era (happy to compare to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels but with significantly more uplifting) and deserves the recognition, can we not stretch to title it with one of his more beloved characters, likely similarly modest, something of a lost art these days.(I will admit I should take it up with wiki rather than here, more comfortable here though).
