iiGxC,

Too many carnists with a boner for predators

Immersive_Matthew,

The issue is most of us would behave the same way if we were the ones with all the money. Not everyone of course, but a fair number of us.

UltraMagnus0001,

Rich nutjobs are eccentric

MediciPrime,

I just call them leeches.

AA5B,

Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a “Coastal Elite Libtard” because I live in a coastal state, am educated, sit at a desk, and earn more than median wage even after adjusting for high cost of living. I worked hard for that college education (many years ago before inflation took it out of reach), now i have to be wealthy too?

Dammit, MAGAts have much simpler criteria and cheaper land, maybe I need to swerve hard right and land in a flyover state

MehBlah,

The lucky. The fortunate.

sebinspace,

It ain’t me…

masquenox,

It’s not the “predator” class - it’s the parasite class.

Calling them “predators” will - apart from the fact that it’s inaccurate - simply flatter their egos

Daft_ish,

I don’t call them the elite… I will continue to not call them elite if that helps.

Chakravanti,

Parasite is much more applicable.

The parasites manipulate the predators to handle the suckers they trap with news nooses.

UnrepententProcrastinator,

I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.

Chakravanti,

You misspelled narcissist.

TubularTittyFrog,

Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.

“More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income”

www.aamc.org/media/9596/download

I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to ‘go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it’. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.

AA5B,

A better example is any flavor of engineer. Usually well educated, earn well over median wage, yet are not wealthy. Are they elite?

Or what about teachers. Very well educated, are building our future, yet don’t get paid nearly enough. Elite? Or non-lite?

TubularTittyFrog,

depends on how wealthy their parents were.

UnrepententProcrastinator,

Maybe it’s more of a US issue.

MonkderDritte,

Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I was just going to say that!

The only time I hear it is in tv shows.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Anime and manga. Classroom of the Elite 🤢

Eigerloft,

And the media conglomerates they own.

AutistoMephisto,
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. They use those to build this lie that they are this grand untouchable class of super beings, but if the OceanGate 2 scandal showed us anything, they are not invincible. They are mortal just like us.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Nobody calls them that except journalists who are on their payroll.

oatscoop,

Or “journalists” trying to smear people they don’t like. FOX likes to call anyone that’s rich and left of “fascist” the “liberal elite.”

Emmie,

That feeling when you were randomly born wealthy and get the daily slander dose on Lemmy.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Just because you were born wealthy doesn’t mean you have to live like it or keep the money to yourself.

Emmie, (edited )

Exactly. Yet here everyone seems to connect the two and equalize together. It’s stupid really.

We should rather focus on pro-capitalists that can also be poor eg. (Trump voters).

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve never seen anyone here pass judgment upon someone whose parents are rich.

Emmie, (edited )

They say „eat the rich” „target practice”, „predators” and such. What do you mean you haven’t seen? This is the very post here.

Do you think it’s nice to wake up and see someone wanting you to die or get hurt? Nah it’s gross and evil.

Just because someone is wealthy, rich or well off it doesn’t mean they are automatically an outlet for all the evil and frustrations.

It’s never okay to generalize people like that.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Are you really so naive that you think that applies to people who happen to have rich parents?

Because they aren’t talking about you, they’re talking about your parents. If you become your parents, they’re talking about you.

Emmie, (edited )

What do you think happens with wealth? It stays in family. If my parents are rich then I am rich what are you even trying to say?

You think I wasn’t given millions already?

FlyingSquid, (edited )
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What happens with wealth? Ideally, it gets spent and/or given away rather than hoarded.

If you are hoarding wealth, as most rich people are, then yes, you are the one being discussed.

No one is forcing you to keep those millions.

Emmie, (edited )

No one except the very system that makes poor people miserable? Oh you noble grand standing naive person. Besides wealth can be used for many good things.

But yes I am willingly going to throw it all away and go homeless. That will benefit society for sure 🤦‍♀️

Besides what is the numerical threshold when having money becomes evil? The very narrative doesn’t make any sense. It’s not about money but about a human behind it. Can be good or bad.

QED

Zoot,
@Zoot@reddthat.com avatar

Generally speaking the threshold for when money becomes evil, is when you’re actively defending, hoarding, and even lashing out at poor people for dare saying you could be using the money better.

If you truly have millions then you could just as easily donate to food shelters, help lobby for laws that don’t ban homelessness, you could even use that money to defend the people who are being squashed by the wealthy.

There are millions of things to do with your millions of dollars, that also won’t leave you broke. Its sad to think you equate helping/donating = becoming poor.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not all surprised that you think anyone who doesn’t have millions of dollars is poor.

And yes, wealth can be used for many good things. See above, re giving it away rather than hoarding it.

Thorny_Insight,

They must be absolutely devastated for all the critizism coming from social media platform nobody has ever heard of.

masquenox,

…and once upon a time, they didn’t care much what people said about them on twitter, too.

Emmie, (edited )

Well it’s a fun platform but it’s a little annoying the mindless witch-hunt you know. It’s not like some of us had a choice in how much money and properties we are born with.

Less replace the rich with pro-capitalists and never assume automatically.

After all there are a lot of poor people that are very aggressively pro capitalist and a lot of wealthy and well off people that advocate daily for socialism in politics and equality concepts.

therealjcdenton,

Skull emoji

Valmond,

For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.

Zacryon,

They contribute sometimes by creating jobs, so they can get richer and fatter while still exploiting those who are taking those new jobs.

Valmond,

jOb cReAtOrS.

Everyone contributes sometimes, even the brain eating parasite from Tsikander, stop being an apologist.

Maalus,

So they are contributing?

Zacryon,

I’m not. Idk how you missed the harsh criticism in my comment.

grrgyle,

Those who subsist off the philanthropy of the workers who build their houses, produce and prepare their food, and subscribe to their pointless rents.

And these good Samaritan workers do this for a fraction of the value produced, all so that these poor wealthy elites don’t have to engage in real, productive labour.

Have a heart. It’s a certainty that they would starve without our charity!

Rozauhtuno,
@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I call them ‘cannibals’, like in The Internationale.

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