everyone wants to believe they're middle class and doing well because our capitalist society demands it
because if you're not doing well then obviously it's your own fault
it allows the rich to feel comfortable and self satisfied with the knowledge that they deserve their lifestyle because they have earned it, while the poor aspire to an impossible ideal that surely!! surely they can reach if they only work harder!!, but this ideal is impossible, it was never going to be a fair go
because the capitalism is fundamentally flawed and has the most marginalised parts of society shoulder the blame for a system that was already broken to begin with.
also the scariest thing about capitalism is that it actually works exactly the way it's supposed to: it functions by marginalising a whole group of people and it relies on keeping them marginalised to continue functioning. it is VERY effective at making it impossible for that group to achieve what others believe they have 'earned' - if it were simply a matter of them ~~'working harder'!~~ capitalism would literally fall apart on its own
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