#social stratification

[qwertyuioppsfg]

Have you ever paused to hear the echo of your own voice?

I stand undone, paralyzed by the barren landscape of your mind.

How could a single heart harbor thoughts so cold,

So entirely blind to the world that breathes beyond itself?

Never once did you glance toward the quiet casualties of your choices.

You walk wrapped in a mantle of absolute self-regard—

A tragic monument to your own vanity,

Self-absorbed, self-centered, blind to every sun but your own.

You diminish others with a casual wave of your hand,

Undoing lifetimes simply because the whim took you.

In the universe of your making, you are the sole constellation;

Only your light matters, only your desires dictate the course.

Your passions dictate; your ego commands.

You move without care, without pause, without room for another soul.

To witness such callousness is a quiet horror.

I am left hollowed by the sight—deeply, utterly revulsed.

[georgedearing]

[georgedearing]

[redshift-13]

Should wealth entitle you to favorable treatment under the law, to getting away with it (whatever it is), to a social system that lays laurels on your wealth and believes as an axiom of fundamental social reality that you've earned it all through your exceptionalism?

What happens when the mythology and privileges of wealth status face serious challenge?

[deerlydivine]

thinking about social stratification and its relationship to class and the mystification of those influences, creating a kind of inverse relationship to understanding and clarity as someone stands to benefit more. thinking a lot about how much a person's lived experiences of subjugation and falling prey to the will of power inform how they view the world. thinking so often about my little mutant mouth with my 2 baby teeth in my late 20s and the fact that anyone who would be already be primed to disbelieve this often have to see the physical evidence to believe it in earnest. a practice where i am often made to belittle myself as an object for another's observation so they could believe what id known. ive been with these teeth, ive seen the xrays, i noticed all the little differences when we'd talk about tooth stuff at school. i knew pretty early i was missing whole teeth. mom said it was because she grew up in a park built over an old landfill. whether i agree with her or not, i know that i was born different, under someone else's influence. its easy to see because i witness and watch it everyday. demonstrating this reality upwards is like a practice in self-objectification to become spectacle. its why those of means who often understand these dynamics often have to do so through a process of explicit education, while those treated as object understand implicitly through the process itself.

[faithfullynimblespire]

Explore the regional variations in agrarian class structures across India. Understand how social, economic, and cultural factors shape rural

[whatheluck]

no really, why the hell are we still using GDP per capita to measure a country´s wealthy if we all know all the lacks it has.

Everyone keeps talking about the problem with GDP but it still is the reference index wtf. Specially cosnidering all the other existing indexes that measure wealth "reasonably" well... or at least better than fucking GDP

[healthyhabitjournal]

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