Most of you have more in common with the homeless man than you do with the billionaire, yet the billionaire dances and smiles and convinces you of your brotherhood.
The middle class and the poor are wage earners, debt peons, receive little to no rents, own little real property, and are beholden to the finance, insurance, and real estate monopolies. The poor are not your enemies. The rentier that siphon unearned income from a system to which they bring no productive value, are your enemies.
The middle class doesn't position itself against the poor, the poor position themselves against the rich and the middle class.
The poor don’t position themselves at all. That’s the nature of poverty: little voice, little movement, little power, little upward mobility.
That is completely untrue, all communist, socialist, and otherwise totalitarian regeimes were established by poor people used as pawns. You should read history. Middle class cannot claim to be oppressed as long as the mainstream media convinces them they are not. Poor people can be convinced they are oppressed even if you give them free food via welfare and cheap available housing.
I live in a house with my family, I drive my car when I want to go somewhere, and I go to work everyday.
How is my life more like a homeless person's than a billionaire's?
Your life isn’t like a homeless persons (grateful for you).
The important distinction between the controlling classes that control the economy and the rest of us (middle and poor classes) is whether one lives off of unearned income (rents) or whether one lives off of their labor (wages). The rentier live off of economic rents…a symptom of the transition from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism. The rest of us live by proof-of-work.
A proof-of-stake economy has been substituted for traditional capitalism, and the middle class have been convinced that this is good for them
