Ok dummy, but I get paid in capital /s
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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... the 'temporarily embarassed millionaire' has 'aspirational' capital, in a fanciful, idealized future.
AKA, 'The American Dream'
Its a kind of faith-based magical thinking, delusion.
Which, as George Carlin let us all know, I think over a decade ago now...
... 'you have to be asleep, to believe.'
I had a fuckwit self-professed 'communist' co-worker many years ago that tried to tell me that my education and skills was my capital. :|
I don't think anyone would let me use my skills as collateral to take out a big ass loan to buy some new skills while I rent out my skills for others to use while I sit on my ass getting richer just because I own my own skills.
under very specific context I can understand conflating assets with capital. but I doubt that's the case
That's why terms like liberal are useful.
And terms like bootlicker
Sure.
ime that only makes liberals even more confused
Then we explain it to them until they get it. It's not hard to explain that capitalists are those who own capital, and liberals are those that support capitalism.
They are often just married to the notion that their principals of liberalism are not mutually exclusive with subjecting capital to public ownership.
I personally find dealing with that separate issue goes nowhere real fast with the average person and alienating them isn’t helpful either so I take what I can get.
People license themselves into believing that that which benefits them is good. They aren't married to the ideas, they willingly choose to believe them until their material conditions prove them inaccurate through their new lived experience. Red Sails has a series on "brainwashing" that I consider critical reading for anyone wanting to agitate, especially Roderic Day's Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing."
"b-but i have money" Has savings and stockshares that would last a year or two without work
Funny but true