like i know these people are technically meant to be our allies because they don’t own the means of production, but how the fuck do you spend more than my family’s annual income on fast food? how are we meant to find common ground with people who are able and happy to do this? 
edit: turns out this is a repost. sorry. but still, i standby my disgust
Jason Steen isn’t middle class. He owns a massive media business and despite that, has been arrested several times because his hobbies include wage theft, posting about wage theft, bragging online about how rich wage theft has made him (see above) and drunk texting his highly educated employees taunting them about wage theft.
He’s obnoxiously ostentatiously bourgeois.
Imagine spending 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS and not realizing because it didn’t impact your quality of life or housing or ability to obtain food
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Preach.
And what we do is probably 10,000x more important to humanity than whatever the fuck this ghoul does
It doesn’t have to be that many times more important as much as it should not be a net negative, such as a hedge fund manager.
A starbucks barista would be 1000 times more valuable to peoples lives than whatever shit this person could possibly be doing
people like coffee and someone has to make it, making coffee is good and based
A starbucks barista would be 1000 times more valuable to peoples lives than whatever shit this person could possibly be doing
Multiplying zero results in zero, yeah.
EDIT:
As someone else said already, I was talking about the linked person with the humblebragging about (probably inherited/connected) wealth.
Service workers provide infinitely more value than failson scions.
are you saying service work has zero value?
As someone else said already, I was talking about the linked person with the humblebragging about (probably inherited/connected) wealth.
Service workers provide infinitely more value than failson scions.
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I don’t know what the guy in this pic does but I already know your job is more important
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We can go a lot lower than that haha
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I think it was meant to be a humblebrag. “Oh oopsie I did a fucky wucky and flexed my dad’s boat dealership credit line!”
Copy-pasting my comment from the previous thread:
At first, I assumed it was satire.
Then, I went to his Twitter profile and it didn’t look like satire but I couldn’t understand how an editor for (what I assumed to be) a local newspaper could make enough to blow $25K/year on delivery.
But looking through the replies, I found someone link to this article
Jason Steen, the owner of hyper-local, digital media operations critics say sensationalize arrests that are minor, violent, graphic, bizarre or just embarrassing, is preparing for his own public brush with criminal and civil legal matters.
Steen’s former employees at Scoop: Clarksville claim he owes tens of thousands in wages, dating to November. He’s facing at least four pending civil suits. His next court date is scheduled for March 31.
and this one
Rising comedian Josh Black has set his sights on Scoop: Nashville, the local outlet most notorious for posting mugshots of recent and embarrassing arrests. Black also takes aim at the site’s founder, Jason Steen, for recent disparaging comments made about Black women activists — and in response, Steen posted a since-deleted tweet that he would “restart” the practice of publishing victims’ names and addresses.
“For some reason, Scoop: Nashville likes to attack poor and working class people,” says Black in the opening of a new video, citing the mugshot-shaming that grew the website’s brand. He adds that the website especially targets Black people, people experiencing homelessness and those struggling with substance abuse. “He’s consciously assisting in the mass incarceration of Black people.”
Black also points to the shockingly high incarceration rate in North Nashville, saying, “Scoop: Nashville is handing out a hotline number … so you can get more of them locked up.” The comedian also mentions that Steen has a criminal record as well — a felony theft charge against Steen came up during his bid for circuit court clerk in Montgomery County.
The mugshot-posting has also been a source of profit — as Black notes, the site and others owned by Steen charged money for the removal of such posts. (The options no longer appear to be on Scoop sites, though Steen’s defense of the practice out of state remains online.) Steen is also pleased with the advertising he gets from bail bond companies.
and it all started to make sense…
This is why people think “oh just stop eating out” is valuable advice. They have no idea that people are trying to live with smaller incomes than what the middle class spends on just food alone. Telling an entire class of people to “just get better job” is not a solution either. This just admits that the job is required but people doing the job aren’t worthy of comfort or savings.
Seriously. It’s like, okay, I’ll spend $15 less per week on food and that will magically solve everything, I guess.
Fat Shack??
Actually paying to have hooters and cracker barrel delivered???
Suddenly I feel less bad about the amount of money I spend on forty year old computers
Guy seems to be a shitty person and wage thief from other context provided in the comments. Also, terrible taste in food.
However, without that context and going by the post comment, it really seems a bit like unproductive bucket-crabbing and othering of fellow working-class people for winning the genetic lottery and not being born in poverty in a shit, hierarchical system based on inequality. Basically, to me, it seems like doing the work of promoting division in the working-class for free.
Should someone stuck under the thumb of an agricultural or meat processing plant wage-slaver think the same of yourself? World’s shit enough without the in-fighting.
Dunk on this guy because he’s a wage thief or has no culinary taste, not because he makes at least enough to rent a cardboard box in a nice part of Stockton.
If he was sharing this like “hey look at this” maybe, but they say “wow I had NO CLUE”
Who the fuck doesn’t realize theyve spent more than 25k in 1 year, thats more than I make even!
I wasn’t trying to other anyone, i was being kind of genuine: how are we as communists meant to find common ground with people so disconnected from the concept of economic hardship that they can throw money around like this? normally you can communicate your ideas to people and be understood (even by conservatives if you phrase it right) because at the end of the day, most people under capitalism are fucked over and living under capitalism sucks, but for this guy it presumably doesn’t suck. how do you get it through to someone like this that the current system is unbearable? because surely it doesn’t feel unbearable from where he’s standing.
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That’s not middle class that’s rich kid behavior
It’s a failson flex. “Oh look at how I accidentally spilled all this money everywhere”
