President Donald Trump’s pledge to help make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality is viewed with skepticism by many prominent Black and Hispanic civil rights leaders.
Well I don’t know if I am convinced that’s true, but even so, I think we have different definitions of “merit”. Like, didn’t Jesus say something about the difficulty of getting rich men into heaven?
But more to the point, it seems to me that if we supported more brown and black people in their financial aspirations, and if we had more Black and Latino and Asian representation in the millionaire community, would anything be different? I don’t think so, we’d just have more black and brown and Asian people trying to maintain income inequality and the power structures of oppression.
Someone with a couple million isn’t rich. Not anymore. A million isn’t what it used to be. If you can accumulate it over the career of a mundane office job, you’re not rich. He’ll, even high earning professionals like doctors still need to work for their money.
You’re kneecapping your own class when you draw arbitrary lines like that based on financial information you don’t understand. You’re attacking your fellow workers, by lumping them in with the actual capital owners.
Well to be fair, meritorious people do not become multimillionaires.
You can make 2 million through your own labor, without exploitation.
Well I don’t know if I am convinced that’s true, but even so, I think we have different definitions of “merit”. Like, didn’t Jesus say something about the difficulty of getting rich men into heaven?
But more to the point, it seems to me that if we supported more brown and black people in their financial aspirations, and if we had more Black and Latino and Asian representation in the millionaire community, would anything be different? I don’t think so, we’d just have more black and brown and Asian people trying to maintain income inequality and the power structures of oppression.
Because it’s not just about race, but class.
Someone with a couple million isn’t rich. Not anymore. A million isn’t what it used to be. If you can accumulate it over the career of a mundane office job, you’re not rich. He’ll, even high earning professionals like doctors still need to work for their money.
You’re kneecapping your own class when you draw arbitrary lines like that based on financial information you don’t understand. You’re attacking your fellow workers, by lumping them in with the actual capital owners.