Rich ≠ Righteous
We’ve been sold the idea that extreme wealth is a sign of brilliance, virtue, or even divine favor—but let’s be honest: most billionaires didn’t get there by being chosen, they got there by being enabled. When we treat them like royalty, we reinforce a system that rewards exploitation and shields power. The richest man on Earth isn’t a king—he’s a mirror of what unchecked wealth really looks like.
#BillionaireMyth #WealthIsNotVirtue #StopWorshippingTheRich #ModernSerfdom #LateStageCapitalism #EatTheMyth #FinancialLiteracy
Meritocracy is a really great fairy tale.
The word was first popularised in a satirical book by Michael Dunlop Young, who was mocking the idea because as a sociologist Young understood how social factors (like family links, race etc.) influence success in life. That people use it genuinely seems to suggest we are now living in an inherently satirical society. Like at some point someone is going to say “haha it’s all been a joke”.
true meritocracy would be horror. imagine dumb people suffering
The halo effect all but proves it could never work.
I love people that think that people that do minimum wage jobs/ entry-level positions are in those occupations because they choose it or because they are straight up dumb, as if people most of the time have the choice of where to work. I truly love it /s
Also, as someone whose family has always work in a factory, now a days they requiere degrees, you can not just go to most factories and get a job.
Faaaaacts
And we saw who was actually key for keeping society running in the pandemic. Me stopping my office job entirely and indefinitely would have done a sum total of nothing. My partner and all his supermarket distribution coworkers stopping work for would have had the streets on fire in 3 days flat.
The medieval serf mentality never left as far as American culture goes. They just replaced the monarchy for wealthy businessmen. American culture is rooted in American Christianity which has deep Calvinist influences. From God’s chosen “elect” in the pilgrim times to the prosperity gospel centuries later, people here have always associated success with morality.
Don’t forget about the rise of ‘Prosperity Gospel’ where financial success is directly seen as blessing (and therefore approval) from God.
Nope. It’s rooted in slavery. That’s what all the immigration issues are. Wake up.
Replaced the monarchy for wealthy businessmen…omg that really resonated.
Thank you for saying this so well. I hope it reaches that commenter.
career outcome is 50% parents and 50% opportunities
100% luck
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many rich kids have bad luck and get bailed out by parents or social networks
Lmao, okay, that ending was funnier than I expected it to be. People who prop up the super wealthy like they are all some type of genius are professional 🤡s. Or they have never worked close with a director or CEO to really see how they conduct themselves internally.
I absolutely love how savage you went here, Chelsea. Fully warranted!
“If you wanna know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gives it to”
Hair looking especially chic! ❤
I make good money and I truly believe that luck has a bigger factor than anything else
Same – when I was a child in the dark ages of the 70s we were on federal assistance. A lot. This year I paid more in taxes than we, as a family, probably took out over my childhood.
That assistance (along with considerable luck) made my current status possible.
Yeah this stuff is deep in the culture, so deep that people are happily discussing eugenics regularly without accepting that’s what they’re doing
What do you mean by this? Sorry if I’m being dense.
@electricmonk4487 Yeah I’m not hearing eugenics being talked about. Maybe she was thinking more along the lines of the birthright citizenship discussion. Of course, that is the GOP being all “America for Americans” and by Americans they really mean white people.
That was popular 100 years ago or so but I’m not hearing anyone talk human selective breeding these days.
A lot of people underestimate how stupidly easy it is to make money when you already have a ton of it.
This!!!
it’s the easiest way to make money. it requires the least skill and least work. not to mention all of your “risks” have no risk to your lifestyle or heath, unlike every single thing you do as a poor person
I truly believe that many people look at the issues in their life and believe that every single thing in their life is their responsibility or their fault. That idea of control makes them believe that they can rise above their station, or gives them comfort that they lost “fairly” against those who have won the game of life. Because if or when these people wake up and realize they were cheated? The kind of epic generational crash out you would see would be on the level of the French Revolution
Sometimes, you’re not crazy; you actually are being underappreciated.
The funniest thing is that the undervalued jobs and careers are also literally the ones that would stop society if absolutely all the people working in them downed their tools e.g. all C-suite execs in a company could take a month long sabbatical with little to no impact but what if all its so called low-level employees did the same? What if all teachers refuse to teach etc?
Exactly. Our essential workers during covid. Enough said right there.
Court jesters were considered valued advisers as well as the one person in court who could tell the monarch about himself. The billionaire stans may be able to be the court gimp, but that’s about it. 😂
They can carry chamber pots. 😂
How about Groom of the Stool so they can wipe their bottom.
@@ChristinaPykles That was the “Groom of the Stool”, full title “Groom of the King’s Close Stool” and yeah it was a position in the royal court. Talk about trying to come up from the bottom.
My partner was a nurse for many years but made less than i did serving tables in university at a shitty pub and everytime someone says we are paid the value we offer society i just have to roll my eyes.
I know! If that was the case, teachers would me so well paid 🙄
In my old profession which was heavily tech related, those with the most skills were on the bottom of the pay scale. Those who could sell, bullshit, and kiss up to someone in power got paid the most.
That’s the definition of oligarchy… “should be in power because you are…rich” nothing else, not merit, not democratic vote, just “well they have money so..they must be good”
I’m a surgery resident. I work for a private insurance corporation and a privately owned hospital. THE PROBLEM IS PRIVATE PROPERTY. I could be serving my community if the entire hospital/insurance industry was nationalized but that a no-no. The finance capitalists need their take, the surplus army of labour needs to exist, and working class that does have a job must have their health insurance tied employment as a means of discipline