What do poor people think of rich people's dogs who live a life much easier than theirs?

Most rich people own pets (particularly dogs) where they can spend $1,500/month for their pets alone. I wonder what do poor people think about this? Do they ever envy these pets? Do they ever think "why do rich people care more about mere dogs instead of helping fellow humans?" Do they ever think that it's kind of humiliating that you, as a HUMAN, have to live such a hard life living off minimum wage while some rich people's DOGS get allowance almost as much as the amount you receive working 50+ hours a week?

Why is it the workers who get pay the most strike the most often. UAW workers get paid more than other auto workers now they want more pay and less work. Kaiser workers who get paid more than other healthcare workers on average, also talking about going on strike. Lazy people veering manipulated by union leaders who yells the loudest. Fire them all and hire immigrants who are willing to work for reasonable wage. Heck ship UAW to Mexico and watch them strike there

Am I alone in this: Grew up hating rich ppl and I associate these brands with the well off and therefore never let them go when theyre trying to get out into the main road at stop signs: bmw, Cadillac, tesla lexus, audi, porsche, mercedes. I let working class cars go but screw drivers of luxury cars. Am i missing any?

Hello community,

Please help me by having your say.

As someone who comes from a working-class background. I know that the odds are stacked against people like us who are trying to take risks (like moving away from your hometown) , pursue a different career path or become qualified/licensed so that they can improve their financial situation for themselves and their family.

I've thought of a potential solution. But I need to make sure it isn't bullshit.

So I'm asking the people that it has been designed to service if they think 1. It is a good idea, 2. It will help 3. They would apply for our services.

Link is here (Please share it with anyone you think it applies to): https://form.jotform.com/232032330935042

https://antimilitarism.org/fundraising/

Help get this new book on anarchist anti-militarism edited by Jeroen JJ Van and published by Just Books Publishing into print. Including Bart de Ligt's Conquest of Violence (first published in English in 1937) along with new translations of previously unpublished texts.

At this critical time in history, as the push to war engulfs us this work seems essential. Bart de Ligt (1883-1938) was a leading Dutch anarcho-syndicalist and anti-militarist, who was imprisoned in his own country for his anti-militaristic activities both during and after the First World War.

The Conquest of Violence presents a strategy for the transformation of society, linking Mahatma Gandhi’s principled non-violence with the total non-cooperation advocated by anarcho-syndicalists through the general strike. De Ligt was both an admirer and critic of Gandhi.

The quest for non-violent methods of waging conflict and struggling against militarism is even more urgent today. This is a voice which still deserves to be heard.

At @ 500 pages this is the first in a series of titles dealing with anarchist anti-militarism.

What is wrong with the people on earth? I live in the Chicago land area. Why are randomn strangers constantly in my business, acting nosy and gossiping constantly? I have been sitting in several different shelters across Chicago because I have been homeless for the last 4 months and I have been dealing with individuals who want to constantly natter about other people or want to be hostile and aggressive towards each other. I also dealt with this when I had my own apartments on the north side of Chicago. I would be sitting outside by myself doing fine arts in a park or just anywhere near my apartments(yes its plural)and I would have some randomn creep; men and women, approach me, to harass me about Jesus or just to wag their tongues at me in a creepy perverted way. They approached me to talk to me about some type of lust. When I would raise my voice at them and tell them that their behaviors are unacceptable, they would try to blame me and say something like, "they don't like my aura or energy" or some weird hoodoo shit like that. And then they would say that I am the cause for them approaching me because of my "aura". I have had people who work at homeless shelters, police officers, and security guards falsely accuse me of being a disruptance in society these past 4 months. I have been kicked out of hospitals and also police stations for the past four months and accused of being a disruptance. I have only been going to the hospitals and police stations because I was told that they were placed peoplr could go to if they are not able to get into homeless emergency shelters immediately. I never initiate communication with others unless for business. In situations that are non business it is always somebody else trying to initiate the conversation.

Like what is this?

I don't talk to people at all. I have not consistently worked since I turned 18 years old and I have not completed college due to the fact that I'm physically disabled. I am getting SSI and have been disabled since I was 16 years old. But I don't have a psychiatric Illness as my disability. I am very particular and very aware and observant. When I am outside I have a very meticulous and narrow focus on my own tasks that need to be done to support my lifestyle. My narrow focus stems from the fact that Im not taking on any type of extra weight from anywhere else. As a single female adult who has no children I shouldnt have to take any weight unless it is from my career/job.

Is the entire planet just filled with criminals who have extra sensory perceptions or just mentally unstable people with extra sensory perceptions? Because I have speculated that individuals are using extrasensory perceptions out here. I have thought for a while that they are looking for others to harm through EP. I also have thought that I was using telepathy and calling other people to myself on accident. But I really don't want to ascribe to the whole psychic spiritual woo woo stuff.

To be honest even if I was calling to other people nonverbally with something like telepathy, people should control their responses. Individuals out here should know better than to randomnly run up on somebody to harass them and threaten them with physical violence. If I were to hear a random call for my name in my mind (which I have) I would not approach the person calling me telepathically. I'm a stranger to them. Why randomly harass a stranger that is not physically interacting with you or even giving you eye contact or facing their body towards you? It's irrational to put my attention on people to that extent.

I recently started up a faith-based apparel brand called "NO GLORY" that supports the working class. Figured some of you might enjoy it/ associate with it. Here is the Instagram: @ noglorybrand

https://www.instagram.com/noglorybrand/?hl=en

nothing important, just noting if you are a wealthy startup owner with an 80,000 dollar bronco, why the fuck are you making an insurance claim off a 2015 mazda6 that tapped you in a parking lot. loser ass bitch

edit:(he told me he was glad i tapped him so he would have a good excuse to be golfing too long to his wife. Not joking)

I was going to add my story about being working class in outback Australia but I’ll just say to everyone listen to working class man by cold chisel that was all.

I crossed the line at dusk, where the pines and tidy Colonial facades of the suburbs surrendered to the crumbling brick of a town that had seen better centuries. The old mills loomed in the half-light, their broken windows yawning like blackened teeth. This was a New England ruin, a place where history had overstayed its welcome. The factories had churned out textiles, clocks, maybe even munitions, back before the economy decided that people like this town weren’t worth keeping around. Now the only thing still spinning was the occasional Dunkin’ drive-thru.

I walked down a main drag that had been built for industry but left to rot in peacetime. The pavement was cracked like old leather, the storefronts hollowed out, only the stubborn ones still clinging to life—pawn shops, vape joints, a bar with no name, just a neon 'OPEN' sign flickering like a bad omen. But there was something new tonight, something I hadn't seen before.

A green light. Not the soft neon glow of a laundromat or the jaundiced hum of a gas station sign. No, this was sickly, radioactive—a hue that didn’t belong in this world. It oozed from the shattered windows of the tenements, from the cracked doors of the defunct barbershops, from the half-abandoned strip malls where the spirit of commerce had long since given up the ghost.

I knew that glow.

Xbox.

I passed an alley where a group of men stood hunched in their hoodies, passing a controller between them like a holy relic. Their breath steamed in the cold, their eyes reflecting the emerald light. They turned their heads just slightly as I walked past, not hostile, not friendly—just aware.

Further up, I saw a wall painted with a crude yet unmistakable declaration: THE RECLAMATION BEGINS beneath the jagged ‘X’ of their cause. The old PlayStation graffiti, a faded blue sigil from some bygone loyalty, had been slashed through, defaced. The insurgency had begun.

It made sense. The embittered, the forgotten—they had no factories, no unions, no future. But they had consoles. They had grievances. They had online leaderboards where they were still kings of something, still counted for something. Maybe they didn’t even believe in their own war, but the fight gave them purpose.

A kid on a bike rolled past me, his jacket patched with the unmistakable logo. A man loitering by a bus stop adjusted his hat, revealing the insignia stitched into the brim.

Microsoft’s army had taken root here, in the ruins, in the places PlayStation had abandoned like the old money had abandoned the mills.

And the green glow was only getting brighter.

Julius Rock (Terry Crews) - Everybody Hates Chris. Works two jobs to support his African-American family in the ghetto of Bed Sty, Brooklyn, New York.

The Working Class Built the Industry. It’s Time to Take It Back.
R.A.T.™ Research Question 002
R.A.T.™ Research & Theory Catalog
002.0 — Working-Class Innovation · Creator Power · Industry Infrastructure
There’s a version of American business history that gets told from the top down.
The executives.
The moguls.
The finished companies.
The billion-dollar brands.
The names everybody remembers.
R.A.T.™ wants to look at the people underneath the names.
Because some of the most powerful industries in America were built by people who didn’t start with power.
Look at early Hollywood.
A significant part of the American studio system was built by Jewish immigrants and children of immigrants, many of whom came from modest working-class backgrounds and encountered discrimination and exclusion elsewhere in American economic life.
They arrived in America.
They worked.
They started businesses.
They built communities.
They found themselves excluded from existing institutions.
And eventually, in California, they started building something that didn’t exist yet at that scale.
Not just movies.
Infrastructure.
Production.
Distribution.
Studios.
Theaters.
Financing.
Talent.
Management.
Marketing.
They didn’t simply ask:
“How do we get hired by the existing industry?”
They started asking:
“What would it take to build an industry around what we know how to do?”
That’s a very different question.
And the result wasn’t some little side project.
It became Hollywood.
The Academy Museum’s history of Hollywood explicitly examines the industry’s origins through immigration and the predominantly Jewish entrepreneurs who helped establish the studio system.
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/hollywoodland
And the history gets even more interesting when you look at the backgrounds of the people involved.
Some came from completely different industries.
Retail.
Clothing.
Theater exhibition.
Manufacturing.
Sales.
They didn’t possess some magical “Hollywood Founder” skill tree.
😂
They brought what they knew.
Then they recombined it.
That’s the pattern we’re interested in.

Because Hollywood wasn’t built by people who already had Hollywood.
It was built by people who saw pieces of an opportunity and figured out how to connect them.
And we’ve seen versions of that pattern repeatedly.
Walt Disney didn’t invent animation.
He built an ecosystem around it.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak didn’t invent computing.
They reorganized existing technologies into products ordinary people could interact with.
Nike didn’t invent shoes, athletics or advertising.
It built an extraordinary system connecting athletes, product design, manufacturing, branding and culture.
The giants didn’t begin with nothing.
They stood on the shoulders of everyone who came before them.
And then they connected the pieces differently.
That’s the part of the history we don’t want to lose.
Because when creators today hear:
“Build your brand.”
“Post every day.”
“Beat the algorithm.”
“Monetize your audience.”
“Become a content machine.”
It can feel like we’re being handed a job inside somebody else’s infrastructure.
And that’s the contradiction.
We’ve never had more creative technology available to ordinary people.
AI.
Design software.
Video production.
Music production.
Publishing.
Coding.
Automation.
Global distribution.
A person with a laptop can now access capabilities that once required an entire department.
Yet we’re still often operating inside infrastructure designed by somebody else.
And the creator is expected to adapt.
Adapt to the algorithm.
Adapt to the platform.
Adapt to the monetization model.
Adapt to the metrics.
Adapt to whatever the market currently rewards.
Eventually you start wondering:
Wait. Who is the infrastructure actually working for?

This is where R.A.T.™ starts asking questions.
We’re not saying the old system is worthless.
Quite the opposite.
We’re standing on its shoulders.
The entire history of creative industry is accumulated human knowledge.
Someone figured out distribution.
Someone figured out financing.
Someone figured out manufacturing.
Someone figured out branding.
Someone figured out how to build audiences.
Someone figured out how to organize talent.
Someone figured out how to turn an idea into an institution.
We inherit all of it.
So why would we throw it away?
The question is whether we can recombine it for the people creating today.

The R.A.T.™ Hypothesis
Maybe the next major creator movement isn’t about creating another platform.
Maybe it’s about creator infrastructure.
Infrastructure that helps people:
research an idea → develop it → build it → test it → distribute it → learn from consumers → collaborate → improve it → build again.
Not simply:
make content → chase attention → monetize → repeat until exhausted.
Because creators don’t just need more tools.
They need agency over how the tools fit together.
And that distinction matters.

That’s what we’re researching inside .LLab™.
.LLab™ is where we’re developing the research and theory around these patterns.
We’re looking at the relationship between:
people and technology
creators and consumers
personality and value
attention and economics
creation and infrastructure
AI and human agency
individuals and institutions
We’re asking what happens when the individual creator gains access to technologies that previously belonged to large organizations.
Does that simply create more content?
Or could it eventually change who has economic power?
That’s the research.
We’re not pretending we’ve already solved it.
R.A.T.™ is the question-generating machine.
🐀

And The Co.LLab™ is where the research gets interesting.
The Co.LLab™ isn’t trying to replace every existing institution.
We’re not trying to declare:
“Everything before us was wrong.”
That’s ridiculous.
We’re saying:
Look at what worked.
Look at Hollywood.
Look at Disney.
Look at Apple.
Look at Nike.
Look at the countless businesses and communities built by people who started with limited access to existing power.
Study what they figured out.
Study what failed.
Study what scaled.
Study what created opportunity.
Then ask:
What can today’s creator do with tools they never had?
That’s the experiment.
We’re trying to reconnect pieces that have become fragmented.
Research.
Creation.
Business.
Technology.
Collaboration.
Leadership.
Community.
Infrastructure.
And put the human creator back at the center of the architecture.

Because maybe “taking it back” doesn’t mean destroying the industry.
Maybe it means taking back participation in the infrastructure.
Taking back the ability to experiment.
Taking back ownership of ideas.
Taking back collaboration.
Taking back the ability to build without having to become an algorithm’s favorite little employee.
😂
And perhaps most importantly:
Taking back the idea that you don’t have to already belong to the industry to contribute to what the industry becomes.
That’s the lesson we’re pulling from history.
The people who built these industries weren’t necessarily waiting for someone to give them permission.
They were working with what they had.
They learned.
They experimented.
They collaborated.
They built.
They failed.
They rebuilt.
And eventually, their infrastructure became the industry.

So R.A.T.™ is asking:
Are today’s creators experiencing another infrastructure moment?
Are we moving from:
creator → platform
toward:
creator → infrastructure → community → market?
Can technology give individuals enough capability to participate in building the systems around their own work?
And if it can…
What happens when creators stop thinking of themselves as content producers and start thinking of themselves as architects of the creative economy?
That’s the question.
R.A.T.™ asks.
.LLab™ researches.
The Co.LLab™ connects the pieces.
We’re not starting from zero.
We’re not pretending we’re smarter than the giants.
We’re standing on their shoulders.
And maybe it’s time to remember:
The industry was built by people.
The infrastructure was built by people.
The culture was built by people.
And the next chapter doesn’t have to belong exclusively to the systems that came afterward.
It can belong to the people building what comes next.
🐀
R.A.T.™ / 002.0 — OPEN FOR RESEARCH.

I had to go close shopping and hair cut today. It seems weird to me because there's mix of classes. Wealthy people, working class people and just down right poor people. I live in Australia but I wonder dose it happen in other countries?

Super cool heavy duty bandanas for working folks.