By this logic the perfect government is where everyone votes on everything.
I mean, that’s basically Switzerland (more or less). Apparently it CAN work, though the question is whether it can work at scale (Switzerland is approx. the size of Maryland).
Am I supposed to sleep with it?
Can’t it, like, maybe use my living room instead?
I guess they must use their magic to pull the trigger…
At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats.
IDK, I think that’s a bit of an oversimplification. Not everyone was either an aristocrat or a peasant, there were also tradespeople, craftsmen, innkeepers, merchants, traders, bankers, and of course the clergy (who would often wield enormous power themselves, even over the aristocrats, because they generally had to give their blessing to whatever the rulers decided to do).
None of these really fit neatly into the peasant/aristocrat dichotomy (except perhaps for the clergy), but I suppose one could lump the rest of them all in together and call them middle class (or townsfolk). Not all of them were rich, of course (in fact, many were probably not), but some of them did quite well for themselves.
Sorry, I may have misunderstood that. What you meant was they ARE part of the 99% but they don’t consider themselves that way, correct?
TIL the middle class is part of the 1%
Correct. This did in fact happen in No Time to Die.
Well, at least the Pulitzer Prize makes sense, I guess.
What should I do, I’m just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door, it followed me home
Now goodnight moon, I want the sun
If it’s not here soon, I might be done
No it won’t be too soon 'til I say
Goodnight moon
I think the elephant in the room is probably best summed up as follows:
No one will ever tell you THE truth. They’ll only ever tell you THEIR truth.
That’s not to say that people won’t ever TRY to do the former (though you have to be careful to separate those who do from those who pretend to), but rather, that it is fundamentally impossible to do so. The real truth is far too complicated to ever be put into words, so the best anyone can hope to do is point you towards it.
Why don’t those starving people just go do one of those restaurant challenges where your food is free if you can finish it the entire thing?
Your joke, but funny:
Yeah, for sure. Because mine have really never been interested in me as a person, only in what I could do for them.
Other than that, I don’t really have any evidence that I’m not their child, so perhaps they were just bad at parenting, but the thought has definitely crossed my mind more than once.
Perhaps, but it might be illegal
Joke’s on you, I pronounce it females
She’s done what three times now? Vote for Trump?
You married your wife because you love her. Her mother-in-law came as a package deal. You can’t have one without the other, because she is the one who raised her. Perhaps she did make the wrong choice a year ago, but you can’t keep holding it against her. You don’t have to agree with her views, you just have to try to accept her regardless, until she softens up on her stance.
Hate is it not driven out by hate. It’s only driven out by Love.
Besides voting for Trump, is there anything else problematic with her behavior? Because, you know, everyone can make a mistake, and being a family is about doing your best to accept people regardless of their flaws.
You say she’s not MAGA, so is it her forcing you into unwanted political conversations or is it the other way around? Because if it’s you who’s constantly pressuring her on his this issue, it kinda isn’t fair for you to complain about it.
You mean Hallopinyos?
Okay, so long story short, there definitely WAS a middle class that enjoyed higher social and economic mobility than peasants, but definitely nowhere near aristocracy.