In terms of raw numbers, a Wall Street trader with millions of dollars in debt has lower wealth than some retail worker with $200 in the bank, or some homeless person currently holding thirty cents Does that reflect their real class position, do you think https://twitter.com/WahidSakaKhan/status/1335770052264677376 …
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*The things money represents* are extremely real but the money itself is a symptom and not a cause It is shockingly difficult to actually take away a rich person's money permanently And when a poor person wins the lottery or something, the money burns away shockingly fast
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And when you get that "class" is this thing that exists in people's minds, this invisible label of who's "supposed to be rich" and who's "supposed to be poor" that the money is only a visible reflection of, then you get why you can't separate "class" from other "identities"
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See when you say "Rich and poor ain't nothing but a state of mind" it sounds dismissive but it's really not The fact that it's just a "state of mind" - your mind and everyone else's minds - is why the game of capitalism is a sick joke
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Poor people are still entirely right about how much it matters in their own lives of course, but as seen from the outside the money is almost a *substitute* for the hereditary stuff — which is exactly what money first started doing at the inception of modern capitalism
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