In essence, class war. Article is from 2020, so it is slightly out of date, but still very applicable...
I see this dynamic every day. In Australia, it even goes down to what music you listen to.
Midnight Oil = faux "Strayan" music with a "working class aesthetic" and extremely preachy lyrics, made by upper middle class private school boys (I've met them. Trust me, they're not working class).
Cold Chisel/ACDC = actual working class music, made by actual working class men (Barnesy is no longer working class. He writes children's books now. But the point still stands), and actually listened to by "the everyman" in pubs with beer they can actually afford to drink...
See also: Australian "punk" listened to by hipsters (Dune Rats, Chats, Soho) vs shit that everyone can actually enjoy, which is... Rarely anything released in the last decade.
More broadly, though - if you go out to a normal vs "hipster" pub or bar here, in NZ, France (yes, really), Ireland or in the UK (I realise the US and Canada are different), you will see this within five minutes...
These people exist in totally different worlds, and I think "insiders vs outsiders" captures this dynamic pretty damn well, to be honest...
I'm interested in how you define your first two categories... Because I tend to think something similar, however I just don't know if we would define them in the same way...
You know about rentierism (landlords, initially, but it has broader meaning these days), I assume..? In which case, I would tend to agree, that there is a massive difference between people who produce things of value (say, food, manufacturing, raw materials, etc.), vs those who... Do not. The "professional-managerial class", let's say. As exemplified by bureaucrats, admin and middle management.
These people are often rentiers (parasites), but not always (or not always literally), but they always make bank of the work of other people...
See also: CEOs who are hired externally, jump from company to company, don't even necessarily know anything about the industry they go into, and receive massive bonuses for doing fuck all...
In Australia, the two clearest examples are Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO (and giant screaming faggot), and the Optus CEO, who cared so little about the job that she decided to only work part time, and oversaw such lax security infrastructure that 10s of thousands of customers just had their personal details leaked, in the last week...
Quality human being all round. /s
See also: University vice-chancellors, and especially chancellors, for other clear examples of what I would consider to be the same sort of... "Parasites", lol...
I personally don't buy into the millennial crusade against landlords, as it's largely a manifestation of their tendency towards the sins of sloth and jealousy. "Other people have thing, me want thing, therefore they stole it" is about as much thought as they've put into it.
They of course put zero thought into the root causes of the supposed problem, namely municipal bureaucracy and endless red tape that prevents people from building laterally in empty land. Instead they howl that single family homes should be outlawed and replaced with highrise eyesores to... try and bring their own rent down. It's every bit as nonsensical of a thought process as you would expect from millennials, they want to fix a problem caused by zoning laws with more zoning laws. As a demographic they always double down on bad decisions.
As for defining parasite. Simply put, it's most people. If your job can be done by anyone with a pulse, odds are you don't contribute to society. Unions are another example. Ostensibly skilled labor, but they engage in constant labor racketeering to prevent any potential competition and artificially inflate their own compensation, while protecting unworthy workers and criminals. As for middle management, it depends on the industry. Many industries primarily hire from within, and don't promote without knowledge of the subject matter. Government bureaucracy are absolutely parasites, and I don't really need to waste words explaining why.
Now I'm not advocating for the destruction of these people. Merely that they should have little or no political power, because historically the only thing they will ever do with it is vote to further their slothfulness and make functional slaves of the rest of us.
Original: https://unherd.com/2020/02/todays-liberals-dream-of-a-workerless-paradise/
In essence, class war. Article is from 2020, so it is slightly out of date, but still very applicable...
I see this dynamic every day. In Australia, it even goes down to what music you listen to.
Midnight Oil = faux "Strayan" music with a "working class aesthetic" and extremely preachy lyrics, made by upper middle class private school boys (I've met them. Trust me, they're not working class).
Cold Chisel/ACDC = actual working class music, made by actual working class men (Barnesy is no longer working class. He writes children's books now. But the point still stands), and actually listened to by "the everyman" in pubs with beer they can actually afford to drink...
See also: Australian "punk" listened to by hipsters (Dune Rats, Chats, Soho) vs shit that everyone can actually enjoy, which is... Rarely anything released in the last decade.
More broadly, though - if you go out to a normal vs "hipster" pub or bar here, in NZ, France (yes, really), Ireland or in the UK (I realise the US and Canada are different), you will see this within five minutes...
These people exist in totally different worlds, and I think "insiders vs outsiders" captures this dynamic pretty damn well, to be honest...
To me there are only two classes that matter. Two axes by which civilization stands or falls.
Parasite vs productive, and moral vs immoral. Everything else is over complication for the sake of obfuscation.
I'm interested in how you define your first two categories... Because I tend to think something similar, however I just don't know if we would define them in the same way...
You know about rentierism (landlords, initially, but it has broader meaning these days), I assume..? In which case, I would tend to agree, that there is a massive difference between people who produce things of value (say, food, manufacturing, raw materials, etc.), vs those who... Do not. The "professional-managerial class", let's say. As exemplified by bureaucrats, admin and middle management.
These people are often rentiers (parasites), but not always (or not always literally), but they always make bank of the work of other people...
See also: CEOs who are hired externally, jump from company to company, don't even necessarily know anything about the industry they go into, and receive massive bonuses for doing fuck all...
In Australia, the two clearest examples are Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO (and giant screaming faggot), and the Optus CEO, who cared so little about the job that she decided to only work part time, and oversaw such lax security infrastructure that 10s of thousands of customers just had their personal details leaked, in the last week...
Quality human being all round. /s
See also: University vice-chancellors, and especially chancellors, for other clear examples of what I would consider to be the same sort of... "Parasites", lol...
I personally don't buy into the millennial crusade against landlords, as it's largely a manifestation of their tendency towards the sins of sloth and jealousy. "Other people have thing, me want thing, therefore they stole it" is about as much thought as they've put into it.
They of course put zero thought into the root causes of the supposed problem, namely municipal bureaucracy and endless red tape that prevents people from building laterally in empty land. Instead they howl that single family homes should be outlawed and replaced with highrise eyesores to... try and bring their own rent down. It's every bit as nonsensical of a thought process as you would expect from millennials, they want to fix a problem caused by zoning laws with more zoning laws. As a demographic they always double down on bad decisions.
As for defining parasite. Simply put, it's most people. If your job can be done by anyone with a pulse, odds are you don't contribute to society. Unions are another example. Ostensibly skilled labor, but they engage in constant labor racketeering to prevent any potential competition and artificially inflate their own compensation, while protecting unworthy workers and criminals. As for middle management, it depends on the industry. Many industries primarily hire from within, and don't promote without knowledge of the subject matter. Government bureaucracy are absolutely parasites, and I don't really need to waste words explaining why.
Now I'm not advocating for the destruction of these people. Merely that they should have little or no political power, because historically the only thing they will ever do with it is vote to further their slothfulness and make functional slaves of the rest of us.