#systemic power

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Systemic, by definition.

[bravecrab]

There's some evil shit about introducing a Middle into a conflict. Like the idea of the Middle Class, between the working class and ruling class, creates such in-fighting. Busying people with arguments of where the lines are that separate working class from middle class.

Did you have a phone growing up? How good of a phone? Have you travelled overseas? Did your parents buy you a car? Would they give you money if you needed it? On and on.

And it's not just people trying to deny their privileges. You've also got people who would be mortified to be associated with poverty in any way, shape or form. Can't have knock-off designer stuff. Gotta keep up with the Joneses.

The middle splits solidarity between the working class and the "middle class". It also drives consumerism. The indefinable middle. You've also got Centrism. You've also got the positions of middle management, who stand between the workers and the greedy CEOs.

The middle exists to hold up the top and add more weight to crush the bottom.