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Middle Class vs Poor?
A response to Ray Walker (she/her)
The Middle Class is the most likely to rebel
I just read a really good article by Ray Walker (she/her), and I felt compelled to add to it.
She rightly points out that the Middle Class has been the impetus of rebellion since ancient times. In doing so, she appealed to the Upper Class (or the rich if you will) to think about accepting a one time wealth tax.
This, as she alludes, would tend to maintain the status quo. This appeals, in some ways, to my own Practicalist beliefs, but it also has within it the seeds of trouble, and the end of any transformative change.
Because she’s right. The bribe would work. For a while. Like a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound, to be honest.
Because while this would work, for a moment, it would not fix anything long-term. As she says, the Middle Class has aspirations to do better with each generation and individually, and that can be realized by the temporary fix. As she also noted, these sorts of imbalances tend to be cyclical. The cycle is unpredictable temporally, but not really unpredictable as a cycle.
