• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It must be nice to be privileged enough to ignore politics and be happy.

    Is “privileged” what we’re calling it when when you’ve resigned yourself to being powerless? That seems less like privilege and more like despair.

    my employer doesn’t. My landlord doesn’t. CEO 's don’t. They lobby to keep prices high, wages low, and workers powerless…

    If the privileged people are engaged with politics and the disenfranchised people are powerless, wouldn’t this suggest that engaging with politics is the privilege and its being reserved for the exceptionally wealthy?