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They don't like Wall Street and they think the 1% should face progressive taxation.
But the moral values they build for themselves are a product of corporate capital and global trade.
The interest in Humanitarianism, Self-care, and internationalism are formed as individual behavior, but they are used to further cement their class interests.
Humanitarianism is meant to promote a utilitarian view of global society. The more wealth transported to the third world, the better humanitarian value one has achieved.
This logic has allowed the Chinese government to promote poverty reduction as an example of its morality.
But developmental wealth is a means by which to promote corporate ownership of capital offering the standard of living they hope to maintain.
Self-care, exercise, etc. which is often viewed as individual pursuits are in reality a mode by which the urban class can deincentivize cultural development. Making them expensive actions both in terms of monetary cost and time marketable has the affect of lowering supply to keep these practices profitable.
And the usage of taxes are meant to give give economic importance to corporate capital making society reliant on their revenue to function.
This way the economic interests of shareholders which directly fund the high cost liberal standards are made government priorities.
In the end wall street and silicon valley are natural allies to liberals as globalism is best promoted by these sources.
They don't like Wall Street and they think the 1% should face progressive taxation.
But the moral values they build for themselves are a product of corporate capital and global trade.
The interest in Humanitarianism, Self-care, and internationalism are formed as individual behavior, but they are used to further cement their class interests.
Sounds somewhat like those who use the corporate owned computers, phones, networks, routers and other stuff to access the corporate owned web sites to tell us what we should or should not think.
Now, if you are a "leftist" sitting on a mountaintop eating herbs and bugs who has developed your own devices from scratch and doesn't, each day, use the products of 100's of corporations.....well....
POINT US TO YOUR BLOG. Speaking for "liberals" I'd like to see what attempts you made at the above.
We never got there, but we spent 3 years living in a tent with a floor from pallets and using outhouses....and the total bill for our life then was one dollar per person per day.
Dollars to Donuts you never lived on even 20 or 30X or even 50X times that. If this is the case, where does your authority for judgement come from? I'd say you pulled it from....somewhere!
What is the TL;DR of your linked article, Winterfall8324?
"Today, spin classes, artisanal food, and the college application process have replaced Sunday promenades, evening lectures, and weekly salons. But make no mistake, they serve the same purpose: transforming class privilege into individual virtue, thereby shoring up social dominance."
Sounds somewhat like those who use the corporate owned computers, phones, networks, routers and other stuff to access the corporate owned web sites to tell us what we should or should not think.
Now, if you are a "leftist" sitting on a mountaintop eating herbs and bugs who has developed your own devices from scratch and doesn't, each day, use the products of 100's of corporations.....well....
POINT US TO YOUR BLOG. Speaking for "liberals" I'd like to see what attempts you made at the above.
We never got there, but we spent 3 years living in a tent with a floor from pallets and using outhouses....and the total bill for our life then was one dollar per person per day.
Dollars to Donuts you never lived on even 20 or 30X or even 50X times that. If this is the case, where does your authority for judgement come from? I'd say you pulled it from....somewhere!
People can't live a pure life on an individual basis, that was the point of the article.
In fact the concept of good living being achieved on an individual basis is why liberal altruism is flawed.
The problem is society and what is promoted within our economic system. I can still complain while being a member of society. The best we can do is minimize our personal exertion onto elite culture and attempt to help others in minimal ways.
This video best explains what I mean (and answers your question):
Self-care, exercise, etc. which is often viewed as individual pursuits are in reality a mode by which the urban class can deincentivize cultural development. Making them expensive actions both in terms of monetary cost and time marketable has the affect of lowering supply to keep these practices profitable.
No, they exercise because they don't get their daily physical routine from work or entertainment anymore.
The Gym industry represents another class structure that turns something that was once universal into a market oriented good targeted towards the upper class.
(quality of Gyms differ from place to place, and many places don't have them at all). Exercise routines like Yoga, Pilates, etc. practiced outside of the gym are again ways to marketing (segregation of class) 'good behavior' that was once intrinsic with human life.
The food industry is another example. All food use to be organic. Now rural towns in farming areas have less access to healthy food than some urban areas. Does that make sense? Its because a universal good has been marketed in a segregated fashion.
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