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I also can't really argue with Chibber's roasting of bourgie leftists enthralled by identity politics. But there's an important consideration here that these low-paid service jobs have a workforce that is quite different from the 1930s. Women in these jobs outnumber men 2:1. In the U.S., it's disproportionately not white if you compare this workforce (which is a lot of people) with the population as a whole. The explosion of wealth for financial capital has also -- no surprise -- benefited people who work in financial services and large banks and the demographics accordingly.

So the Patrick Batemans of America have done well, and racial inequality has actually intensified in the U.S. over the past 40 years -- but a lot of whites took a blow when their mortgages blew up in the financial crisis which didn't recover. And then tell that to a white guy working at Amazon with the rest of the proles. He doesn't feel privileged and I think that's where the left-wing intellectuals do a lot of damage. Chibber's argument seems to be that what constitutes wokeness for the professional types is basically a bourgeois thing where you open up Harvard admittances without talking about making community college tuition free. But that also seems like an unsustainable contradiction when the rulers are swearing up and down about how inclusive they are while the majority of people they're claiming to include are locked in as retail and warehouse drones for the rest of their life. People instinctively know that's a sham.

And then both the bosses and the left-wing intelligentsia types repeat this defeatist mantra -- the former perhaps much more intentionally -- that diverse workplaces won't unionize. The left-wing types say it's because of racism. Okay, racism is insidious but don't be a defeatist about this. Amazon also said this according to their whiz computers that became a meme. Ah, so, that means it's pointless... we should just give up and accept our fate. But that's not true. The whole "internal study" that Amazon did which was "leaked" to the press could've easily been some psyop because, surprise, bosses lie a lot. If someone is reading this and believes that leftists spend too much time enthralled by identity politics and should focus on the real class enemy, I accept that, but don't just up and believe whatever the class enemy says is true... because if you're in a class war they're going to use misinformation or psychological warfare to try and confuse or demoralize you.