Obviously, most oppression these days is brushed under the rug.
But classism and economic inequality are usually not recognized as oppression and often not included with other forms.
I figure it’s mostly because, under capitalism, people believe in this whole “trickle-down” concept, or that everyone is either a “have or a soon-to-have” (which, numerically speaking, cannot happen under capitalism). People still follow the “American Dream”, in which hard work equals success and happiness.
It doesn’t.
And when it doesn’t, people do not look to the root of the problem but the people with this problem and label them as lazy.
I don’t have braces, and my mouth is constantly in pain because of it, because of financial struggle.
I have to look for colleges that have no-loan-policies so I don’t graduate college with ridiculous debt.
My boots are horribly worn, but I would feel guilty asking for new ones. So I don’t.
This is my life, and I am fed up with people claiming that I have the same opportunities as everyone else in America, that my mother is lazy (the next person to say that should clean a rich person’s bathroom), and that if I work hard I can do well. That’s not how it works. It could potentially work that way if there were fewer workers than jobs, but there aren’t. Kindly stop pretending that capitalism is only made up of “haves and soon-to-haves”.
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