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by helpfulContrib 345 days ago
Some destruction is necessary for all creation, but generally its a bad idea to destroy the middle class instead of shoring it up.

>making bullshit

Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's what the world really needs, after all.
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aleph_minus_one 345 days ago
> Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's what the world really needs, after all.

The problem is: by the way you were raised, you have become deeply brainwashed into the social norms of your class for decades. Becoming class-fluid means getting free of this whole brainwashing, and then get a brainwashing for your destination social class. This also implies that you have to give up all your friends (if you keep them, they will back-brainwash you into your old habits; additionally, by the reprogramming these old friends will be unable to get on with you anymore because you have become a "different person" for them).

Thus, I believe only very few people want that.

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RonSkufca 344 days ago
Wow! You just articulated a feeling I have had but could not put my finger on it until I read that. I grew up in a blue-collar Midwest US city that was decimated by the loss of domestic manufacturing. I went to college and got a CS degree and went on to enjoy 2+ decades of the tech boom and was paid well for it. Thus, allowing me and my family move into a different class i.e. white collar, educated, entrepreneurial, class-fluid. But now at middle age I don’t recognize any of my friends from the “old” neighborhood as I have changed so much, we don’t really know each other anymore. Our views on many things are so different we might as well be strangers. But due to being raised in that blue-collar environment my thoughts and ideas sometimes don’t mesh with the new class of people I find myself socializing with now. Which leaves me in some kind of limbo. I don’t fit in with the people from my past, but I don’t fit in with the people of my present.
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helpfulContrib 343 days ago
Work on not seeing class at all - this is the ultimate fluidity.

Embrace differing views. It can be done in a way that makes everyone win.

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