probably one of the worst things about otherwise well-meaning boomers is that it takes forever to convince them that a rich person they've heard of actually sucks and the rags to riches story is never true. It's always wealthy parents funding their shitty kids.
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in reply to @ChipCheezum's post:
Sometimes I think it's a little sad... because that gen grew up during a time when The American Dream wasn't a TOTAL crock of shit? They could at least point to their moms and dads at least and say: "See? Came here penniless on a boat from the Old Country, and look at them now! Learned English by reading newspapers and watching the news, got a house, started a business (or worked hard to become a boss), had kids, retired, etc. The American Dream." And now that's rarely possible and they're still unflappably believing in something that is now practically fiction.
But then I go "Fuck that shit, take in the current reality of the world and stop believing that every rich person is a self-made man who deserves that shit you stupid motherfuckerrrrrrrrrrr"
Compounding the problem is the notion that there's some kind of inherent moral value to having an ass-ton of capital. We've got this implicit bias nowadays towards anyone in poverty, as though it bespeaks some kind of flaw in their soul. The ultra-rich, meanwhile, are somehow living "correctly" and their actions are self-justifying. Some kind of shitty bridge between capitalist valuation and classic value judgments that lets us say "you're poor, so you're a bad person" and vice-versa.
Convincing people at my job that Elon Musk isn't good feels like it has to be handled like a U.S military psyop. Just this slow mentioning of things here and there: "You hear about working conditions at the Tesla factory?" Like, different things surrounding Musk without using his name. In the words of Pusha T, "We gon' take this slow. We just gon' peel it back layer-by-layer."