it's not about the top, it's about the bottom...
It's a mistake to think people love the hierarchy of capitalism because they think they might one day be at the top. You wouldn't say conservative women believe they should obey their husband because they think they might one day be a husband. People simply believe in inequality.
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This. A hierarchy that keeps you from the bottom ensures you always have someone to look down on, even if you're never at the top. Lose the hierarchy, and you could end up on the bottom next time.
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They accept it as a given.
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they've been bred to accept it.
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I offer the hypothesis that most authoritarians are followers, not leaders in waiting.
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They like it if they think it prevents them from being at the bottom.
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Also they don’t gotta be at the top to benefit. Plenty of middle class folks are totally fine with wealth inequality, and love, for example, citing economic studies that show that, somehow, “real compensation” has remained parallel to productivity even though real wages haven’t
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I think people believe in a hierarchy because they assume it exists as a meritocracy. I just need to work harder to get there, that’s the carrot that keeps our society functioning isn’t it ?
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Or maybe it's both. People believe in inequality deep down, but when it gets too depressing (because let's be honest, how many of those people are actually rich) they use the "hey if I work hard I can climb the hierarchy" thought to comfort themselves.
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