• BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world
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    Nah, the aspiration isn’t so much that people think they could be billionaires, merely that anyone could be. It creates a social bond between the working class and billionaires, it dissolves the identity divide for the working class. Working class people think “they’re hard workers just like me,” while billionaires use their identification as working class to selectively absolve themselves of the responsibility they have.