I remember my coworker once showed me a TED Talk style video of a guy claiming the reason people are poor is because people have a “poverty gene” and therefore, they have to keep serving their capitalist masters, who have their special and magical “being-rich-and-better-than-you gene.”
Can’t afford your car payments? You have an Expensive Car Gene.
Stubbed your toe? You have a Stubbed Your Toe Gene.
Gotten fired from your job? You have a Easily Fired Gene.
It’s utterly ridiculous how many nonsense ideologies there are out there who try to obfuscate and perpetuate class rule through pseudoscientific bullshit.
Belief in Gene-absolutism seems to be a thing.
I remember my coworker once showed me a TED Talk style video of a guy claiming the reason people are poor is because people have a “poverty gene” and therefore, they have to keep serving their capitalist masters, who have their special and magical “being-rich-and-better-than-you gene.”
Can’t afford your car payments? You have an Expensive Car Gene.
Stubbed your toe? You have a Stubbed Your Toe Gene.
Gotten fired from your job? You have a Easily Fired Gene.
It’s utterly ridiculous how many nonsense ideologies there are out there who try to obfuscate and perpetuate class rule through pseudoscientific bullshit.
Stubbed you toe? Believe it or not, communism’s fault.
stubs toe
Another 10 trillion victims of communism on the tally
Soo…they’re admitting all their achievements boil down to pure luck of the draw?
Plato’s Myth of the Metals, but for modern capitalism.