Ask her why that line of thinking doesn’t apply to her. She earned her money. Why should they take it?
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darthelmet@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
If only it were just dudes. My mom is like this. I can get her to agree with that things need to be better and that social spending is good but… when I explain to her that we need to tax billionaires to do that suddenly it’s “BUT THEY EARNED THEIR MONEY! WE SHOULDN’T TAKE IT FROM THEM!!!”
Dookieman12@piefed.social 13 hours ago
darthelmet@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I do try to explain that, but she just won’t listen. It’s like there’s a mental block stopping the connection from happening.
The crazy thing is she’s worked insanely hard in her career and until a couple years ago barely made any money from it. (Although some of that is the gender inequality of her being out of work to take care of us when we were young for a few years.) She doesn’t understand how her being this hardworking professional who still only makes enough for a middle class income is different than someone who’s never worked a day in their life siphoning money off of workers so they can buy their 3rd mansion, private jets, and elections and somehow still has MORE money after all of that.
nullspace@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s not entirely her fault. The billionaire class has been dumping money into that fire since before you or I were even born.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
The classic circular reasoning.
“They’re rich because they worked hard for that money so they earn it. How do you know they worked hard? Because they’re rich of course. If they didn’t work hard they wouldn’t be rich!”