#class system

[miiju86]

let that sink in....

[deepestconnoisseurmoon]

Parasite (2019)

Dir. Bong Joon-ho

[howifeltabouthim]

The doorbell rang. Lady Milton ignored it. One never opened one's own front door.

Kate Atkinson, from Death at the Sign of the Rook

[wayti-blog]

"us versus them" is the biggest trap we invented for ourselves

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[grayrazor]

It's kind of refreshing to go back to the blunt honesty of 1800s slumlords and plantation owners, before all the rationalizations and obfuscations of liberal capitalism.

The whole idea of people being inherently lazy comes from them seeing that if people weren't working for them on their mines or farms or factories they were subsistence gardening and hunting.

"How dare those ingrates want to provide for themselves and be left alone instead of producing bulk goods to stimulate the economy! How can they see all these resources out there and not want to exploit them to depletion? Really, we need serfdom/slavery, these brainless animals need to be taught discipline."

[galerymod]

In the grip of the upper class.

It is often asked whether Britain would be better off without nobility and a king. Great Britain is famous for its monarchy, castles and aristocrats. In reality, the country has a tough class society. In many areas, poverty is so extreme that people can either afford food or heating. Others reside in huge castles and decide on laws as aristocrats.

Why do the British put up with this?

The king of satire has consistently exhibited these characteristics, and there is no reason to believe that this will change.

Would they be better off without the aristocracy and the monarchy?

It is evident that this is not a viable proposition. The notion that those who are less fortunate in our society can manage with so much land is, at best, naive. What is required is a more nuanced approach that acknowledges the complexities of land ownership and management.

The Earl of we do not want to share our land and our power

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In a brazen display of arrogance, the Earl of Leicester has the audacity to claim that welfare recipients are lazy and deserve poverty while being interviewed on a vast estate.

It's always remarkable when people who have everything and haven't worked for it, but only maintain and increase it, believe they are high performance!

Oh yes, and that the rest are simply too lazy..... bloddy hell

A truly insightful documentary into a political influence system dominated by the classes, which continues to defend its privileged position to this day and will continue to do so in the future.

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Too bad that this is only in German

Ascension to the upper class is rather rare, but then you are one of us.

As one of the richest families in the UK, exempt from inheritance tax on property and having amassed large collections of art and jewellery over the centuries, the Windsors are known for being extremely secretive when it comes to financial matters. The process was apparently used to change a transparency law in the 1970s so that the Queen did not have to disclose her private assets.

It is unlikely that a person of modest means who has made a considerable fortune by selling unapproved cocaine derivatives to the idle upper classes and bankers will be able to retain their assets in the form of privacy.

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It should be noted that this text was written at the behest of communist shareholders of the underground movement. The intention is to establish a new nobility, rather than to perpetuate the existing order. This is the genuine sentiment of the authors.

[shnuggletea]

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[retrobooks]

(via Writing Diversity: Creating Working Class and Underclass Characters)

[quibbs126]

Also I cannot express how much I love job systems in games, does anyone know any good games with versatile job systems? The most I know is Final Fantasy, Octopath Traveler, Fantasy Life and I suppose Fire Emblem

Oh and I guess Miitopia as well

[miiju86]

Even besides what feminism has done to further female liberation - it even has had massively positive impacts on child protection and labour laws (and much more) - of which many just came into existence at all solely because of feminist's work. By aiming to dismantle the very core and root cause of class hierarchy and power-imbalance in our society, feminism is the force of healing in this world. But of course, the cancer cells themselves try to tell you otherwise...

[georgefairbrother]

Remembering British film director, Michael Apted, who passed away January 7th, 2021, aged 79.

According to his obituary in The Guardian,

"He was a director who moved with ease between socially conscious documentaries and feature films with a special focus on female achievement".

His career began as a trainee at Granada Television, Manchester, where as a researcher he worked on the first of the ground-breaking documentary series, Seven Up, in 1964, originally conceived as a one-off episode as part of the World in Action programme. He also directed episodes of Coronation Street (he described Violet Carson and Pat Phoenix as 'the biggest divas in Britain'), and The Lovers, with Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox, along with other television plays and programmes.

In Hollywood, he directed a number of acclaimed, diverse and successful movies, including Coal Miner’s Daughter (seven Oscar nominations with Cissy Spacek winning Best Actress), Gorky Park, Gorillas in the Mist, one James Bond (The World is not Enough), and Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

He continued to steer the ‘Up’ documentary series each seven years, which checked in on the fate of a number of British children from different classes and backgrounds, from the age of seven. The most recent, 63 Up, screened in 2019. He said, "The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society. The class system needed a kick up the backside."  He described the series as the most important thing he had ever done.

According to The Guardian;

"...Though the Up films were internationally acclaimed, winning Apted the coveted Peabody award in 2012, he mourned their skewed portrait of women. "The change that’s gone around with women in the workplace and women’s place in society is the most significant socio-political event in contemporary culture," he said in 1995. "I missed it. I only had four women out of the 14 and all four of them settled into domestic life very quickly"... In his good-natured way he prodded and challenged the trio of working-class women in the show, who gave as good as they got..."

He intended to continue the 'Up' Series for as long as he was able, and 70 Up was proposed for 2026.

In 1995, Michael Apted appeared on a documentary by fellow director Stephen Frears, along with Alan Parker, A Personal History of British Cinema. He was typically forthright, did not seem to think particularly highly of David Lean's epics including Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, and opined that Ken Loach's Kes was the best British film since the war.

Perhaps fittingly, 63 Up was Michael Apted's final screen credit.

(Sources include IMDb, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the Stephen Frears documentary A Personal History of British Cinema)

[djhamaradio]

Duppy Echoes on Telemarketing

I am trying to write more so please forgive me for any grammatical or clerical errors.......

I will start this by saying, I am not reviewing this yet but whatever you do watch this. Secondly sorry for the image it is a bad screen grab from my phone sadly.

When I graduated i was desperately looking for work, and generally the places that where hiring where telemarketing type institutions. A lot of them where straight up con jobs, just like the institution at the heart of the aforementioned documentary. The company CDG, works by soliciting donations, from people on behalf of Police organizations. The people, the work environment and actual work remind of places a lot of down on his or her luck college grads find themselves working for a few years. Or the only option for a lot of people with criminal records, little to no education or experience. Many Americans are slaving away in some cold cubicle warehouse doing work similar to the stuff you see in this show. For context I graduated with a graduate degree to a fairly shaky market, with a degree in Non Profit management, and on every job board, Linkedin post the only people who ever responded where these weird shady murky corporations. Corporations whose business models never made any logical sense. It was either that or these save the world campaign groups that had you working for nothing at all, standing around passing flyers and screaming slogans. It was at this time that I was depressed but very intrigued at the nature of the job market and how it is full of these strange traps that coerce people into spending their lives doing things they clearly deem immoral.

[fck02]

the hardest part about this very moment is that we are so lost, no matter who we are or what any of our statuses in society today are. the wealthiest are so far detached from society that they could not comprehend the struggles of the average person, no matter how hard they tried. the rich strive to be the wealthiest, and they consume and overtake and they help funnel more and more into the pockets of their friends and those above them. the middle class barely exists as we once knew it. the poor are suffering even more than ever before and they are trying their best to make ends meet, find a new job, a better home where they don’t have to spend their entire month’s worth of paychecks on rent, and trying to feed themselves and their families. the impoverished are pushed so far down the barrel, and their screams are more muffled than ever. we’re all sardines in a tin can, trying to reach our way out so we can go back to the ocean and avoid being eaten. but it’s too late.

[cynicalclassicist]

It's weird for a British person, where it's all about how you pronounce certain words.