…so in what way does that excuse keeping a system where an owning class takes the vast and ever-increasing majority of the fruits of everyone’s labor, whether they work hard enough or not?
It doesn’t.
But if I have the choice of either supporting the current system that exploits me and unfairly distributes my labor to rich people who don’t deserve it, and the alternative is a system that also exploits me and also unfairly distributes my labor, just to people who also don’t deserve it, they’re just not rich…
That doesn’t exactly motivate me to support a system change, because from my point of view, it’s effectively the same system.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not without empathy. I’d just like to limit my support to those who are actually victims of chance in an uncaring universe instead of those who are self-sabotaging and crying me a river about it.
Kind of.
It doesn’t.
But if I have the choice of either supporting the current system that exploits me and unfairly distributes my labor to rich people who don’t deserve it, and the alternative is a system that also exploits me and also unfairly distributes my labor, just to people who also don’t deserve it, they’re just not rich…
That doesn’t exactly motivate me to support a system change, because from my point of view, it’s effectively the same system.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not without empathy. I’d just like to limit my support to those who are actually victims of chance in an uncaring universe instead of those who are self-sabotaging and crying me a river about it.