Wandering Adventure Party

@imyxh @xgranade Basically, people are surprisingly good with you having money - if you're being a good person. This is always surprising to me. I expect more envy, more hate - but somehow, people are chill and nice enough to understand that I'm no big shit and that my sympathy is real and that I really do wish that they were paid more and got similarly alleviated from financial distress, and said distress is not my fault.

Where the real tension appears is house ownership. Some people own a few houses and give them for rent. Realistically, even if they are alleviated from having to work and have safety layers, they aren't very safe. But is is very hard to build class consciousness when your life depends on a product someone sells.

Though, I also haven't seen leftist landlords, so maybe it is possible - if they put in the effort.

@imyxh @xgranade I used to think that, and that's wrong. Granted, I'm no millionaire, especially not in USD, but I have a salary that is so high that many people in the area would go to great lengths and great risks to earn. I've been on the giving and the receiving end of envy regarding the pay, so I understand it.

At some point, I realized that trying to prove the same classness would look like rich crying. So now I act the part. Sure, I make enough that I can afford many conveniences and no monthly financial horror. I don't flex with it, though. Most conveniences I use are restaurants and deliveries - which compensate for horrible mental health. I help friends and acquaintances when in financial need. I appreciate very greatly all effort towards me from other people and people working in service industry. I try to leave tips.

My only wish is that I'd give out money more freely, and donate to people more often. And donate to strangers on the internet. This is something I experience a ton of friction with - maybe some ambient financial anxiety really interferes with it.

@xgranade I feel like "rich" as a word is very bad, because it fails to draw the difference between upper middle-class and owner-class. I personally earn a high wage, but I'm completely working class. I've talked to people who make much more money than me, some of them business owners and owning houses, but none of them are "safe". For money, you can buy convenience - and if you make a lot, you can even dream or buy a house, which is a necessity. But there are lightyears between that and someone like Bezos.

And yeah, tech people really have no class consciousness - they think if they buy more convenience, they are hot shit. A lot delude themselves with right-wing talking points, thinking the oppressive politics won't harm them based on some ideological reason. It's frustrating. Join a union.