Denise Lehtinen wrote:
Mt. goat wrote:Isnt the frugality movement just propoganda from the 1%.?
Nope. In fact the mantra of the 1% is "Greed is good". (And it is what they live themselves.)
It is also their favorite tool for controlling the 99%.
Yes!! The way to control and keep the poorest in society "in their place" is to make them want what the rich have. The idea of "spend, spend, spend" is there to keep consumption, and therefore capitalism boldly striding forward, which in turn lines the pockets of the director's and shareholders, while the people who have been brainwashed since childhood into becoming the indentured wage slaves needed to keep them there are stuck in unfulfilling jobs scraping by to put food in their mouths and clothes on the table. Keep people busy, and exhausted just trying to survive, and they don't have the time or energy to rock the boat...
