When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.
Because we are surrounded by the media that the rich owns that propagandizes us to put the rich on a pedestal.
Because they’re cucks
The rich people are almost all psychopaths and probably got that way because of the way wealth warps people’s minds.
I think most people are incapable of understanding just how much damage the rich do to the working class on a regular basis.
The rich kill more people every year, through business and political decisions, than any terrorist group or military. Often by being the puppet masters of those terrorist groups and militaries.
The rich are humans, that’s just fact. However, people need to wake the fuck up and see the richest and most powerful in the world fundamentally lack humanity. They are fundamentally isolated from human beings through their wealth and influence.
Maybe bc they are human?
I personally am skeptical
From personal experience from people that I know who love to defend the wealthy they believe that if we defend the wealthy and give them everything that they want eventually we will give us something back as well and we will enjoy a better life. Somehow?
They are human.
Humans are just like that.
yep. pretty much everyone who screams about how much they hate the rich… would act exactly the same way if they were rich.
human beings act in their own self interest and that of their tribe.
Also, kinda hard for me to imagine eating a god. Just…ew.
Depends on your religion, I guess. The Flying Spaghetti Monster seems pretty edible.
To try to understand someone is not the same as respecting them. One can try to understand one’s enemy to better fight them.
Because a lot of people aren’t paying attention to when their unethical behavior is demonstrated repeatedly, and they just assume billionaires are just like the rest of us.
A lot of these people are so lost that they genuinely believe anyone can become a billionaire if they put in the work. Propaganda machine go brrrr
In every era, the ideas that rule are the ideas of the rulers.
This point is expansively detail in capital and ideology by Piketty
Boot lickers. Just boot lickers. Hoping to become one of them one day.
Lemmy is such a weird site. Almost every thread I’ll read the most terrible dehumanizing shit said about working class people for just existing in a conservative U.S. state, but a thread asking why the rich are idolized every negative comment appears to have upvoted responses calling to recognize the humanity in everyone.
Weird.
Really depends on the instance. Most lemmy.world subs are cesspools. Hexbear and the like tend to be much better overall.
Hexbear remains winning
Everyone human is human but psychopathy seems to favor wealth gain. But like woz would be one of the richest people in the world if he had not shared his apple stock with employees. Hes still rich though and a nice guy. His generosity though is why he is a millionaire and not a billionaire.
True.
Wealth filters psychopathy upward and you need to be at least little asshole to succeed in competition, but I think the broader influence is all the shit talk about deadbeats and freeloaders, that in long term dehumanizes the poor and creates notions that wealthy are better breed and there’s nothing wrong, if the unfortunate die in the gutter. If they can’t support themselves, maybe that’s for the best. You can clearly see this shift even in many people that were once considered to be leftists.
Some kind of “Stanford experiment” kind of effect.
Because they “earned” or achieved wealth, i.e. worked really hard to become rich
You mean because people think the rich earned their wealth?
Like Jeff Bezos slaving day and night, as he does, to get all those parcels sent out.
Or Elon coming up with, like, cool ideas. And shit. After smoking another blunt and thinking about how great Adolf Hitler really was.
They be dragons.
It makes me wonder if some of the dragons written in literature are just an allegory for the ultra wealthy and powerful of their time that were hoarding unimaginable wealth while the huddled masses starved.
pretty sure that’s a metaphor
Think of Smaug from the Hobbit, tell me how Smaug is different from Jeff Bezos and his underground bunker of money.
smaug had less, and was (eventually) content just sitting on his pile long as noone stole from it?
Bezos is on a never ending crusade to take as much as he can forever
How we don’t know how vast the riches of Middle Earth were. Perhaps there wasn’t much more for Smaug to get unless he mined it himself and being a lazy dragon was satisfied to just have almost all available money and hold it. Bezos knows there is still so much more he can gather so he hasn’t gone over to “Sit on wealth hoard mode.”
