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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (40 children)

I'm sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they're an expert on everything just because they've got money.

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  • [+] -56 points 1 year ago (38 children)

    Well, the poor tend to be less educated and only care about immediate needs. So yeah, if you have money, you're probably more of an expert than a person without money.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Ah yes. "The poor". Know all about them do you?

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Considering the fact that I grew up in extreme poverty - yes, yes I know ALL about them. Unlike random muricans who's only struggle is inability to buy a new iPhone each year.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you honestly believe there is no greater poverty in America than "can't buy the latest phone"? What about the swathes of people who struggle to keep a roof over their heads?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (21 children)

    the poor tend to be less educated

    Education being free or not depends on the specific government and its policies of a sovereign country. Education may not be free in your country, in which case yes poor people have less access if they have less money to afford it.

    You generalizing your experience in your country to the entire world, though, speaks to your bias and lack of education, which is quite ironic. It also speaks to your willingness to accept the status quo rather than try to undermine it and fight for something better for everyone.

    If you're on Lemmy, you're likely not rich, and so you're acting against your own interest. We as a proletariat could achieve so much if we were willing to put aside our differences, aim towards the removal of rich twats from power, and install systems and policies that benefit us, not them.

    Instead, you're propagating a lie with undertones that only rich people have the curiosity to learn about the world around them - as if they were born with that capability while the rest of us weren't - all while failing to recognize that immediate needs have to be met first before people think about pursuing higher goals.

    Have a down vote.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Proletariat, lol. Are you living in the 18th century?

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    People refers to poors and rich, no?

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    The rich are not us. You group us altogether, as if we share anything. We don't. The rich time and time again pit us against each other while planting the seed that we'll be them one day. We won't.

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    Class consciousness?

    We can improve education by taking more money from billionaires?

    Billionaires want to keep their money, so education stays shit?

    Not poor people's fault?

    I'm literally talking to a rock.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    It's not the 18th century anymore, there are no classes.

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    I’m poor as shit and I think I’m pretty damn smart.

    My ex was a trust fund baby and dumb as rocks. I did his college capstone for him.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    People who think they are smart usually overestimate their abilities.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

    Personally I don't buy into the whole measurable intelligence mentality. I am a firm believer that a person without any medically significant cognitive deficiencies are all smart in some way and are experts in some particular field/subject.

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