Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 day agoSome might not consider him working class.
But yeah, unless they start having McDonald’s at the commissary (which now that I think about it, is not outside the realm of possibility) he probably won’t be eating at any restaurant ever again.
He should have gone to a no extradition country. Not Pennsylvania.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Does that title really require someone to be FROM the working class? I always thought it was more about who they fought for.
Take Che Guevara, for instance — the guy was from an upper class family who could afford to send him to med school. So was Marx, whose father was lawyer with a comfortable income who could afford to have all of 9 children (though not all of them survived). And John Lennon, who wrote the song that inspired the meme, had already had an enormously successful musical career and was quite likely a multi millionaire by that point.
kreskin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“millionaire” is not quite the same measure of impressive wealth that it used to be. A million dollars from 1974 is equivalent to 5.4 million today.
Heres a calculator if you want to check against your birthday www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1974?amount=10…
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You are a hero, pal ❤️
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Thanks, bro 🙏