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I think this is also what the average new grad makes in London in the private sector...

Certainly half of what new grads are paid at the big players

On a more serious note I give very often to mutual aid posts here. If you ever make one I'll probably be one of the donors

Do you have an OF? I'll subscribe to it

Most governments give out free healthcare it's not even close

Stan countries are Central Asia

Almost impossible, some sort of base super structure theory going on here?

Anyways I kind of did that except I didn't penny pinch, just tried to min max financial strategies (credit cards, options trading, interest rates, etc.) but like, maybe 60% of the extent of what FIRE guys do. Still way more than the average person

And tbh, yea, I did end up becoming somebody who's weird with money and wealth despite intellectually being radicalized and now I'm still trying to unlearn all of that

I was never reactionary or a neoliberal even before radicalization, I was just thinking about money far too much

There's absolutely nothing wrong with having healthy financial strategies, sometimes to the point of obsession, and aiming for FIRE especially given our fucked up government who doesn't care about us, as the author herself says

But every single person I've met who does this is a reactionary neoliberal

In theory. In practice though, having more wealth does have an effect of which class that person will side with

In your example of the working class elderly with an expensive house, it is likely they will side with the bourgeoisie to further oppress the proles on the matters of rent/affordable property if it means retaining or increasing the value of their property

A wealthy coder for a megacorp often sides with the bourgeoisie because their access to capital affords them similar avenues of exploitation against the working class. Voting against labor laws for Uber/Doordash workers in order to keep their delivery fees down, pushing for more policing of the homeless to keep their property value up, advocating for increased surveillance of people because they're paid in company stock and the more the tech sector grows, the higher their salaries will be pushed due to supply and demand of their job

Now compare that to a petit bourgeois coder who is living paycheck to paycheck and needs to also drive Uber on the side to keep them afloat

Idealism vs materialism

They think that 1000 queer people getting killed in a proportionate amount of 10k deaths is less damaging to 100 queer people getting killed because they're specifically queer since it's only the intent behind the murders that matter. Not the actual murders themselves

I don't see them as the real government. The government is still the real government but the ClA are a special type of police that polices both the outside world and the US government on behalf of American capital

Do non-Westerners usually use West Asia rather than Middle East? A trend I've noticed somewhat

Obviously very cool

Pretty sure the first amendment also protects the right to blame everything on the Chinese