So while at the power plant in the control room, i overheard a conversation between two operators. (actually it was more of a rant from one operator to the other). The one operator was saying how his grandparents told him that this is what it was heading to back then and that it still holds true today -- the government won't be happy until there are two classes of people -- the really rich and the really poor. By raising the gas prices and stuff and by letting all the immigrants in from Cuba and Puerto Rico, who will do the same job that the Americans are doing right now for half the price, the rich will keep getting richer, and the poor will get poorer. And until the good ol Americans, the ones who still have hair on their nuts, stand up and get their guns and start to bury those motherfuckers, we're going to lose all our jobs to those goddamn foreigners. At one point he also said "that's fucking bullshit, motherfucker" which i thought was amazing.
Now throughout all this as i was sitting right next to the guy saying this, I just thought to myself "good thing i have a salary job and am middle class. If this ever happens, i'm sure i'll be bumped up to the upper class and not the lower class, therefore i'm safe and don't have to care about this."
the other thought i had was: god, the poor are so annoying. whine bitch moan. waaaaah. seriously. sheeesh.
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Yeah, it made me think that there's a third group of people which are those who could be stuck in the middle but educate themselves or are entrepreneurs and jump to the rich side.
It's only those with no ambition or resources who stay on the poor side. Survival of the fittest.
the super ugly and dumb are in the lower class as well -- where they belong. but, being part of the super rich is generally not good either, because for most people to get there, they have to do horrible non-idealistic things that perpetuate class division, like go to business school or become a politician. i think most of the people at the top of the money making lists probably don't deserve to be there based on any great contribution, but a great ability to walk all over people.
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