Make Your Damn Bed4 Sep 2025

1554 || murder of the middle class + cult of consumerism

Death of the middle class:

What is it: Anyone who has had to work to pay for rent, bills, food, etc.

How to reestablish it: Corporate regulation, People over profit, Wage theft prosecution (no more deferred accountability loopholes), etc.

(the upcoming series will contain specific examples)

What’s killing it: A system that prioritizes profits over people means: Catering to the wealthy and eliminating services + experiences for the middle class.

Eliminating the working class from every direction. Culture, economics, sustainability, livelihoods, nothing is safe.

Wage theft is the largest form of theft even if you take all of the other forms of theft that exist, combined. So they’re stealing our money, benefiting from corporate bailout loopholes that they lobbied for, which means their own workers are paying taxes into the system that robs them of their own profits, and THEN

Pricing us out with an increase in taxes, wage theft, and manufactured inflation.

They’ve privatized or are in the process of fully privatizing everything: Prisons, Healthcare, Vet care, Wellness, Dialysis, Education, Housing, Politics, and the land itself… literally everything that should be in the best interest of the public and the world at large has been bought and sold to the highest bidder.

But it is not hopeless. What is manufactured can be restructured. We can fight back, if we're strategic and conscious of the ways in which they're attacking us. This is psychological warfare, only when we recognize this, can we begin to push back + defend ourselves against these attacks.

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