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Oligarchs conduct class war by seeding division within the working class. The working class fighting amongst themselves isn't class war, and is just self inflicted pain to distract from the oligarchs. This is the message of the comic.
In theory, but the whole legal system is so weighted towards people with money it's not even funny. So grass routes mobilisation/organisation seems required at this point, otherwise, the status quo continues on.
Especially in countries that have terribly voting systems (the US), but also in those where the voting systems are decent.
The meme is literally about people are traditionally labelled different classes fighting against themselves.
And if successful, then becomes the system, including the legal system, and then the same flaws appear. The revolutions that have been most successful kept in mind the laws and legislation that needed to be changed or enforced. Otherwise, it's just regime change insert number here.
The whole point of this comic is to point out the absurdity of working class people with different incomes fighting each other, when there are people extracting extreme levels of wealth.
Yes, people's definition of working class may differ, but the message of the comic is the same regardless. It's pointing out how silly it is to fight at the kiddie tables.
There's always going to be problems in society, but this type of argument is unconvincing, considering how much, and how frequently society has changed over the last 2000 years - practically in the blink of an eye in the scope of human existence. The same problems aren't guaranteed to appear under a new system. The various forms of society throughout history have definitely had different problems.
I'm just saying that the fundamental key here is mobilisation of the people, who are the ultimate arbiters of the law. The law is fundamentally democratic in origin and only exists because we collectively believe in it.
There have been numerous movements in the past that were illegal at the time, but are obviously moral in retrospect (the civil rights movement in the US comes to mind).
"Just work within the system" as a blanket statement is not a serious argument to be making when the system is massively rigged in favour of wealth. (Apologies if this isn't exactly what you were arguing just seemed that way)
No one's suggesting you abolish rules/laws entirely and start completely from scratch. Well, no one I take seriously anyway.
Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don't even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.
You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what's actually an arbitrary definition, don't forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.
Indeed, it's only a categorisation, though I'm certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you're working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.
I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that's not my intention at all.
It all depends on the definition of class, and it is such an arbitrary one. What I meant was that if your definition is arbitrary enough, it tends to include a lot of false positives. There are a number of rich people who have said that they should be taxed more and have not shown any indication of contradicting themselves, for example.