My #1 hottest take is that there are no class traitors. There are just people pursuing their class interests in a variety of costumes.
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I'll qualify this take when ppl offer examples, but 99% of the time this is correct, and most seeming anti-class interest moves may simply be the first step toward destroying your own class as a pre-apocalypse martyr-clout seppuku move or setting yourself up to rule a new class
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I'm fine with that. My grandfather Stechly worked 7 days a week and lived in a small Pittsburgh-area brick home with a front porch he owned in full ("neither a borrower nor a lender be") and so does his grandson, who does the work. The work is always the same, and that's the tea
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Those are my class interests. The interests of one slice of the area's old-ethnic working class. The slice that always crushes a can properly and always sells the aluminum.
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I like to do the work. I like to do heavy labor and heavy lifting. I like to mind my own business and just rest. My yard is always mowed even. The front porch is clean. The work of localism
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I think the majority do the setting yourself up to rule a new class bit. Societal conditioning, that’s why you see the majority of beginnings of it in people between Jr High and College. Ousted by one social hierarchy, find another to get clout, find a way to the top tier.
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That's my belief too. It's a smart move. Perhaps even Engels could be counted among their number...who can say? 1848 didn't work out so great. The work of reaction
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