Good man

I was just trying to offer a quick explanation/summary of the concepts or the main distinguishing external features of each class, because I see a lot of confusion and wrong self-perception. I see a lot of people saying they’re “mid to upper class” because they can afford a nice home and two cars. Just looking at how much money they have, not how do they have it or whether they can maintain that without working. Obviously to understand class and social stratification you have to read more. I am aware that the upper class are there because of the work of the lower classes and the surplus etc. I’m not obscuring anything, just offering some definitions. Sorry if it didn’t come out that way.

So I learned it this way:

Upper Class - can live a luxurious life without working at all, and even have domestic employees etc.

Middle Class - can live comfortably but only if they work

Lower class - cannot live comfortably even if they work, and can very easily end up homeless (no social safety net)

The dude who taught me this was my Sociology of Work teacher over twenty years ago.

Love them. Wildhoney introduced me to the whole genre as a teen.

Eternity

Which is heavily influenced by words (propaganda of any kind, media, etc). Moreso these days, where most people know nothing about how things work…

Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn’t they vote for him if they know it?

I don’t think even 5% of Venezuela’s economic issues derive from Maduro’s government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain’t helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.

María Cochina Machado

THICC

She’s very right.

Jesus Christ man I’m not gonna have enough time in my life to listen to all that

Thanks!!!

For me it’s become much slower, but it does load them eventually

I recommend this one too

There are others worth checking out but I went with Nobara, it’s been the easiest distro to switch to for gaming on my main PC. It’s developed by the same guy who develops Proton (the compatibility layer that Steam uses to be able to play Windows games on Linux) so I trust his work. Lots of tools and configs out-of-the-box. Very beginner friendly and nice looking too.

Yeah I’d recommend Magic Earth as well, I use it practically every day. I tried many other apps and it’s annoying that this one isn’t FOSS but I needed something that actually works

Oh dang. That’s true.

I don’t like their default launcher either, it’s indeed very iphon-y. I just installed another launcher and that’s it. It’s essentially Android so that’s no problem. I also disabled microg entirely, which is possible.

Murena does ship them to the USA, but with /e/OS preinstalled, which is great if you’re into privacy and degoogling. I don’t know how it works with US carriers though. Feel free to ask them on their forum, community.e.foundation

So surprised! /s