OP/ED RANT... "You live in your parent's basment"

[Brian37]

I virtually did for about a decade. In a small apartment actually. When my parents got feeble and I cared for them in their final years. Ruined my own career and my outlook on ever making some serious buck, since I quit a well paying job as an editor in chief to work as a freelancer. And now, in my 50ies, I'm damaged goods, ready for the big garbage pile of human economy.

That's the thing, it still should not matter if someone does not move up the economic ladder. We already find it acceptable for a woman to stay at home and be financially supported. I don't like gender rolls at all. 

Now that also is not saying "everyone be poor to prove themselves"...... The point is an economy will always have 3 classes in the west, and that is a good thing, but at the same time, there WILL be, some who get to the top, some who make it to the middle and some who never move from the bottom. 

What does matter is that more people are STABLE no matter where they end up.

I don't hate all wealth, nor do I hate someone merely for having more than I do. I still believe that the more educated and economically stable more people are, the better the society is as a whole. There is ROOM for everyone, but no room for our current plutocracy.

But both with religion and economics, you are either right or wrong. There are poor people who vote republican too, so making it a class issue is fucking stupid. There are rich liberals too. 

There are poor right wing Christians and poor liberal Christians. There are middle class right wing Christians and Liberal middle class Christians. There are rich right wing Christians and rich liberal Christians. But there are also poor atheists, like me, I'd also bet some of them are economically right. I am sure there are middle class Trump voting atheists, just like their are middle class Bernie and Hillary atheists supporters. Penn is a rich atheists, but I don't agree with him on his economics, even though we agree on social issues. 

That is why when it comes to religion or economics, where someone lives isn't the fucking issue. And especially if you are not in the relationship, you have no damned say in any case. 

It amounts to demagoguery of the poor especially, but demagoguery of anyone who questions the power of the upper class.