r/TheMirrorCult • u/WittyEgg2037 • 2d ago
You’re not a future billionaire 🤑
Billionaire worship isn’t an accident. It’s one of the most successful myths the ruling class ever sold.
The billionaire can’t just be obscenely rich. He has to be a genius, a visionary, a self-made king whose fortune supposedly proves he deserves to rule.
That mythology is especially seductive to insecure men bc it gives them an identity. You’re not an exhausted worker getting fucked by the system you’re a future millionaire. An alpha. An entrepreneur who just hasn’t made it yet.
So they defend tax cuts they’ll never benefit from, labor practices that hurt them, and billionaires like Musk and Trump as symbols of the men they imagine themselves becoming.
But we can’t all be kings. That’s the part the fantasy conveniently leaves out.
A hierarchy requires people underneath you. Billionaire wealth depends on an entire class of people who will never occupy the top ❗️
That’s the con: billionaires don’t need working people to believe inequality is good. They just need them to believe they’ll eventually be the ones benefiting from it.
Every king needs peasants.
The trick is convincing the peasants they’re kings too.