Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.

  • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Sure, if you want the extremely rich people who actually made you poor to write your narrative for them. Save your anger for the people who actually suppress wages and equity. Not people who just managed to carve out a middle class life by doing some job. Middle class people and poor people are much much closer in wealth to each other than middle class and the truly wealthy who rule this country.

          • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            They do though. Neither one of them deserves your anger. Be angry at the people who actually set up the system that makes you poor. Not the middle class who has as much to blame as the poor.

              • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
                7·
                1 year ago

                Yes, the middle class benefits some form the current system. We want a system that benefits all. That doesn’t mean breaking the system for the people who live a comfortable life. It means making the system support a comfortable life for all.

                And blaming them as a block is really stupid anyway because they don’t all vote lock step. These divisions along non-ideological divides are a silly distraction meant to keep people fighting people who are actually on the same side.

                  • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    call me a skeptic but I doubt there is someone here with a million dollar mortgage and multiple cars that’s just sitting around, reading lemmy.

                    Like what, they’re reading a thread on lemmy on the way to a business meeting in their private car?

                    Like who are you really yelling at.

                • Apollo@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  How do you change a system set up to benefit a class that is completely entrenched around the levers of power, without tearing down the whole rotten structure?