• peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    One disaster could ruin any hope we have of keeping a home and saving money for retirement one day.

    Whew thank God I’m never going to be rich enough to afford either. Genuinely kinda more worried about the hundreds of millions of people who are going to die from climate change, who the hell gives a shit whether the American middle class loses their hope or whatever.

        • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          6 months ago

          Middle class is an arbitrary distinction we are all workers

          Now what can definitely be said is that your typical American is a reactionary racist beyond salvation but that’s true regardless of income, and if this is your point I don’t disagree

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            6 months ago

            I’m not crying for some roaches with million dollar homes getting what was coming to them. The United States uses more power for air conditioning than all of south america uses for existing. Fuck em. Fuck their houses, fuck their retirements. They’ll hold on to their white picket fences until the rest of the world has burned into nothing but ash. We can and will do without them. These wildfires, all the wildfires to come are nothing compared to what climate change will wrestle upon the rest of the world.

          • Murple_27@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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            6 months ago

            Middle class is an arbitrary distinction we are all workers

            It’s not entirely arbitrary. The middle classes are what people are referring to when they talk about the Petit Bourgeoise & “Labor Aristocracy”. Still, peppersky is perhaps taking things a bit too personally.

    • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Dude, I’m a house owner. Do you think I don’t even deserve this shitty 511 square foot house that has put me into the category of being house-poor? Do you think I deserve to have my house burned down. You’re a fool who has bought into the concept of the middle class which is a class division useful for the bourgeoisie.