Memes

The people I have a tough time with are people that have nice homes in nice suburbs (mostly boomers) and tons of disposable income to buy goods made by cheap labor. Sure it might be propaganda, but the propaganda aligns with their lifestyle and makes it more digestible.

its a shame because these are sometimes skilled workers and any future socialist society would depend on them to some extent to apply their skills to building the next mode of production. that said, maybe 5-10% (made up stat but just based on what I see at my workplace, which is largely people like that, tech professionals that think they are hot shit even in the face of layoffs and obvious capitalist encroachment on their standard of living but i digress) are reachable and when the crisis deepens and their bougie sectors get hit even more than now, there is a chance more of them will start to feel the pain and want to engage in collective struggle and have some solidarity etc. so far the outlook is bleak, though, and I actually think a lot of the new lemmy peeps are people from that stratum