In a world where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, what does the Middle Class think will happen to it? Because it doesn't even take much imagination to come to a conclusion about this. The marginalised will become voiceless of course, but the MC bozo who thinks the...
...poor "deserve" what happens to them will pretty soon find himself standing among them. When money flows in only one direction and access to resources is controlled only by the ultra rich, the MC bozo isn't going to be treated like a special little meritorious snowflake.
Instead, he is going to discover that merit isn't as rare as he thought and that the poor neighbourhood he now finds himself in is full of meritorious people. He will find that the reason his so-called merit isn't useful to him is not because he is lazy. It is because he was...
...clapping loudly when discriminatory systems were being put in place because he thought the ones building those systems were his friends and the ones protesting against them were his foes. The Middle Class will vanish. Some will resign themselves to slavery. Others will weep.
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