Also, people with power often like to harm people that are less fortunate because they believe they deserve it: “If they were good people, they wouldn’t need to work for a living, because they’d be rich. Since they’re not rich, they must be bad people.”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was legitimately shocked at the cartoonishly villainous shit I heard in my brief time at an investment firm. I swear to God this is a verbatim quote from a middle-aged, white, millionaire, Mormon investment adviser:
“There’s no excuse for any American not to be a millionaire, if they’d just stop buying their cigarettes and their dope for a few weeks.”
Hand to God. It’s so absurd that it sounds like a, “That man’s name was Albert Einstein. And then they all clapped.”-type story, but that place was fucking wild.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Finance bros are the OG of tech bros. I believe you.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be fair, the first half of that is true. What’s wrong is failing to correctly attribute the reason to wages’ failure to keep up with worker productivity.