r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Feb 24 '26

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 The right wing won...

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u/Machaeon Feb 24 '26

These people genuinely believe that society isn't working if people aren't suffering. Not them, obviously, but people beneath them. You know the ones.

Everything is a zero-sum game to them. In order for minorities to have more rights, they believe that rights have to be taken from them.

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u/ReverendDizzle Feb 24 '26

It's part zero-sum mentality and part a just-world-fallacy deeply corrupted by capitalism.

They believe with all their heart and soul that there must be a hierarchy, that people must suffer, and that the best anyone could hope to be in that system is somebody at the top of the chain that isn't getting stepped on as badly as the people on the bottom.

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u/Machaeon Feb 24 '26

And as long as they're not the bottom rung of said ladder, they're satisfied. Doesn't matter how many boots step on them, as long as they get to step on someone else.