OK, so being a millionaire is not rich. Kobe makes 30 million a year but he's not rich. Jay Leno pulls in excess of 25 million a year but not rich. You have quite a high standard for what constitutes being financially wealthy. I'm going to guess then that you are not rich nor will you ever be.
Anybody that works for a living is a slave. The news anchor I'm watching right now on TV is a slave. A member of my church who has worked at Walmart for over 30 years starting as a bag boy but is now a district manager making $150,000 a year is not only not well off but a slave. My 24 year old neighbor who is a fireman and pulled in $75 grand is also a poor slave. The great Arnold who worked as an actor and then a politician is a non rich slave. Dana White and Anderson Silva all have to work to get a pay check and they are just poor slaves. I look at the all the people at the recent New Years neighborhood block party, all laughing and enjoying themselves with their children and families, all looking well fed and happy: a meat manager at a grocery store, a mailman, a school bus driver, a pharmacist, a cashier, truck driver, convenience store owner, a teacher, a web designer... all jobs that allow our society to function. And all slaves. All being, as you so eloquently put it, "Fucked hard up the arse." But not you. You have a leg up on the rest of us. Somehow you manage to provide a roof over your head, food on the table and clothes on your back... not to mention the computer now in front of you by being a free man. How one expects to get things but not work for them is something that Americans don't understand. We value work. We honor the working man.
But to you we are just too ignorant to realize how miserable we should be. Somehow, despite you ability to avoid a "hard arse fucking", you don't strike me as a particularly happy and content person. You sound very bitter, angry and resentful. Resentful of others who have done better in life than you have. And it's not because of any hard work, ambition, drive, intelligence, determination and courage to take risks. It's because they were born elites. Dana White was born into privilege and now can exploit others. He got all the breaks and you didn't. But your virginal arse is still intact. Well, good for you.
We slaves will slave on and you, well, you carry on as well living the dream with your unviolated arse. The rest of us will wallow in our ignorant state of bliss all the way to our grave. You're the true winner. You should be happy.
I have done very well in life. I also value work, that work that benefits me and not enriches an already rich individual. It is you who sound miserable and bitter. I am happy because I worked hard to have access to the MOST VALUABLE resource in the world. MY OWN TIME. All those people doing jobs they wouldn't be doing if they didn't have a choice and think that is somehow freedom are merely brainwashed. You really have no idea how indoctrinated you are do you. You have just literally served up the exact same view of the Elites who enslave, yes most everyone. Ever heard of Cultural Hegemony which describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of the society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class worldview becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm; as the universally valid dominant ideology that justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural, inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class. That's the beauty and genius of the system, the enslaved have no idea that they are in fact enslaved. The problem is people are told what to think rather than how to think. Those who have learned how to think will escape this indoctrination and be able to see outside of their limited worldview.
The irony is, it was the Slave Owners who first suggested that wage slavery was even more oppressive than Chattel Slavery. They were right, they merely replaced the fear of force with propaganda. The only FREE man is those that have found a way to REALLY CHOOSE what they do with their time. If their only choice is to work or starve, this isn't true freedom. And you fail to see the scale of oppression and exploitation. America could be considered the more well off slaves, living of the more exploited third world Countries. The thing that strikes me is you have no idea how you betray your own class and promote the agenda of the ruling class. It's as if you are completely oblivious to the brainwashing you have endured. If you are a happy contented slave, carry on then. If you are happy to sacrifice the one thing that is truly yours, your time, to further enrich already obscenely rich men then carry on comrade. I am sure they appreciate you sacrificing what could have been the best years of your life to do so. Like I said, the genius of the ruling classes is how they have gotten those they exploit to promote their agenda.
Well, I think that what used to be called, centuries ago, "wage slavery" is intolerable. And I don't think people ought to be forced to rent themselves in order to survive. I think that the economic institutions ought to be run democratically, by their participants, by the communities in which they exist, and so on; and I think basically through various kinds of free association.- Noam Chomsky
