• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Gotta love that many of these supposed “feel good stories” written to goad the masses into living like serfs live to conveniently gloss over the fact that the story subjects just so happen to have a house to rent out. Cheap attempts at population programming.

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      16 days ago

      This seems quite similar to what we call I’m the UK inverse snobbery. It was quite a big thing (apparently) during ww2.

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        15 days ago

        In the US during the Great Depression, rich people would have “hard times parties” where they were all expected to dress like hobos (the common name for rail-riders and other migrant workers, not used as a derogatory insult to the homeless) and served intentionally cheap (but still often fresher than what the actual homeless were eating) stew.