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For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.
They contribute sometimes by creating jobs, so they can get richer and fatter while still exploiting those who are taking those new jobs.
jOb cReAtOrS.
Everyone contributes sometimes, even the brain eating parasite from Tsikander, stop being an apologist.
I’m not. Idk how you missed the harsh criticism in my comment.
So they are contributing?
Those who subsist off the philanthropy of the workers who build their houses, produce and prepare their food, and subscribe to their pointless rents.
And these good Samaritan workers do this for a fraction of the value produced, all so that these poor wealthy elites don’t have to engage in real, productive labour.
Have a heart. It’s a certainty that they would starve without our charity!
I call them ‘cannibals’, like in The Internationale.
Real-life vampires.
I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.
Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.
“More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income”
https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download
I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to ‘go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it’. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.
Maybe it’s more of a US issue.
A better example is any flavor of engineer. Usually well educated, earn well over median wage, yet are not wealthy. Are they elite?
Or what about teachers. Very well educated, are building our future, yet don’t get paid nearly enough. Elite? Or non-lite?
depends on how wealthy their parents were.
You misspelled narcissist.
Nobody calls them that except journalists who are on their payroll.
Or “journalists” trying to smear people they don’t like. FOX likes to call anyone that’s rich and left of “fascist” the “liberal elite.”
That feeling when you were randomly born wealthy and get the daily slander dose on Lemmy.
They must be absolutely devastated for all the critizism coming from social media platform nobody has ever heard of.
Just because you were born wealthy doesn’t mean you have to live like it or keep the money to yourself.
Exactly. Yet here everyone seems to connect the two and equalize together. It’s stupid really.
We should rather focus on pro-capitalists that can also be poor eg. (Trump voters).
I’ve never seen anyone here pass judgment upon someone whose parents are rich.
They say „eat the rich” „target practice”, „predators” and such. What do you mean you haven’t seen? This is the very post here.
Do you think it’s nice to wake up and see someone wanting you to die or get hurt? Nah it’s gross and evil.
Just because someone is wealthy, rich or well off it doesn’t mean they are automatically an outlet for all the evil and frustrations.
Are you really so naive that you think that applies to people who happen to have rich parents?
Because they aren’t talking about you, they’re talking about your parents. If you become your parents, they’re talking about you.
What do you think happens with wealth? It stays. If my parents are rich then I am rich what are you even trying to say?
You think I wasn’t given millions already?
What happens with wealth? Ideally, it gets spent and/or given away rather than hoarded.
If you are hoarding wealth, as most rich people are, then yes, you are the one being discussed.
No one is forcing you to keep those millions.
Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.
Anime and manga. Classroom of the Elite 🤢
I was just going to say that!
The only time I hear it is in tv shows.
And the media conglomerates they own.
Exactly. They use those to build this lie that they are this grand untouchable class of super beings, but if the OceanGate 2 scandal showed us anything, they are not invincible. They are mortal just like us.
The hoarding class
They do hoard wealth, but in another sense they’re constantly making money moves: shifting their capital here and there, to extract more value from various local economies.
Hoarding would actually be an improvement. Like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold. But they’re more like rampaging dragon that is never satisfied with its booty
They extract value from things until there is no more wealth, like mining an ore vein dry or bottling all the water from an aquafer. They hoard that value for themselves and leave nothing of value for others.
The one description in this entire post that is pretty accurate.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone making less than six figures actually call them that
Leeches, because that’s what they are.
Parasite, not predator.
Yeah, predators earn their food, typically.
Wealthy people are almost always born with it… Just like many parasites.
Or the exploiter class
I like this one because when I was really into MMOs it was interesting to see the birth of exploiter philosophy within the game. Then the positions that the exploiters would always take when it was suggested we crack down on cheating was that they were being unfairly persecuted and their mere presence benefits everyone.
Even after the exploit was patched they usually got to keep their ill-gotten gains because they would turn what ever it was into intangibles or launder everything.
It was just a complete microcosm of capitalism. Which can all be summed up by their creedo, “exploit early and exploit often.”
Even funnier, Steve Bannon had ties with WoW gold farmers.
More in line with bourgeoisie, the class term should be “parasitaire”. Hell, it even has Paris in it. 🤪
C’est Bon!
No it doesn’t have Paris in it :p
Ah yes, the famous city of “Paras” France.
Close enough for me. People pronounce it all different ways anyway
I just call them leeches.
Predator sounds too cool, also. Makes me think of those hunter aliens from the scifi franchise of the same name.
Why not dickbags?
Freeloader class
The handouts class.
I don’t like the term sexual predator. It turns out most of them are just doing dumb (but obviously hurtful) shit to anyone they can find that’s weaker than them because they have no other ways of feeling empowered and connecting with other human beings. Actual interactions with them in a controlled environment where I’m holding all the cards are just laughably sad.
They keep trying the same petty shit, mostly to my younger female nursing assistants who are smaller and less likely to shut them down quickly (there’s a reason they often go after children). Fortunately a) I’m watching and b) all of my nursing assistants know I will drop the fucking hammer in a second I hear the patient is trying to perpetrate some silliness, especially since I usually already know from the patient history.
Predator makes them look a lot more intimidating than can accurately describe such sad little people, so I call them “sex pests.”
I was thinking the parasite class.
I was thinking the same thing, predator sounds about as cool as elite
Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a “Coastal Elite Libtard” because I live in a coastal state, am educated, sit at a desk, and earn more than median wage even after adjusting for high cost of living. I worked hard for that college education (many years ago before inflation took it out of reach), now i have to be wealthy too?
Dammit, MAGAts have much simpler criteria and cheaper land, maybe I need to swerve hard right and land in a flyover state
Call them the eloi
