Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Potato]

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

Isn't this fair? You said that working harder isn't evidence of deserving anything. Seems like you lack the skills and emotional maturity to develop an analytical framework that doesn't self-contradict at step one.

Especially when you can't illustrate how your thesis is even supposed to work, how the less hard working impoverished Americans stole and still steal all the capital from the hard working wealthy Global South.

I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation?

How do you? You're constantly talking about the life you deserve where you have greater material rewards on the backs of other people doing more labor for you. You spend almost all your time bitching that people don't offer you goods/services for free spiritual rewards and instead seek compensation for their labor.

Let them eat...Lucio fanart.