Teenage affluenza is spreading fast
Which is more worrisome that a large percentage of the youtube audience who commented on this video don’t understand the concept of irony?
“is he taking the pi**? The non english people are the real sufferers.”
Or that searching for ‘Noam Chomsky‘ on the same site yields an interview between him and Ali G as the most relevant video?
In fact if you rank them by ‘view count‘ two copies of the same Ali G video come in first with over a million views combined.
If only it were true that for every,
DougRWms:
“What a pathetic piece of leftwing bullshit.”
there was one of these:
This is a classic fallacy. We don’t have to lower our standard of living to improve the standard of living for the rest of the world. The life of the average person is not what should concern anyone, rather the lives of wealthy CEO’s that profit off of blood wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should.
Chomsky aptly explains the real-world theory behind the economy thusly:
In fact the theory behind the economy is really quite simple, you’ve got to keep rich people happy so maybe they’ll invest and something will trickle down. And you have to keep everybody else, meaning the great mass, insecure because then they won’t ask for a thing. There’s also another thing that follows, you have to keep them frightened because if they’re not frightened then they’re not going to accept it, so there’s a constant pressing of the panic button to keep the population frightened, so they won’t care if their wages are stagnating or their working hours are going up. They’re insecure they don’t know if they will have a job tomorrow.
Empasis added
So the vast majority of people should not only put up with the masssive inequality perpetrated by the uber-wealthy, they should continue to subsidize them with their tax dollars.
What kind of propaganda can we expect to reinforce this “trickle down” narrative in the mainstream media that they own? How about something like this:
For starters, let’s give (the wealthy) a round of applause… They must be doing something right. And then thank them for contributing to society by paying taxes that fund our buses, trains, hospitals and schools. Not to mention the many new jobs they create when their business thrives.
Don’t get sniffy at ‘affluenza’ by Janet Albrechtsen.
She wrote that tongue in cheek, expressing the view that this should have been Rudd’s answer to a question posed to him on ABC radio about the super wealthy.
Actually, I’m teasing you. That was not Rudd’s response. Instead, he fuelled the rich-hating myth that, just as a spot of dancing leads to sex, a booming economy leads to that eighth deadly sin: inequality.
What a depressing state of affairs we have encountered. It used to be that you could dismiss criticism about the ever expanding gap between the super rich and the poor by calling the critic a communist. Rich-hater just doesn’t have the same ring to it and won’t poll nearly as well as something like Anti-American or Tree-Hugger.
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