It is this way because the rich people control everything. They won't lift a finger to change if they think they can scam 10,000,000 people into lives of utter inconvencience and guilt to "offset" their own pollution. Hint; every one of us could live in caves and recycle our everything with stillsuits and the rich's portion would just expand to fill the voids we left. This isn't a game with a high score. The hands of the many must join as one to cross the river of life.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I have a plan. Bear with me here. Requires only a cursory understanding of basic construction and late 18th century French revolutionary methods.

[–] elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The French Revolution was mostly a bourgeois revolution tho.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get confused. bourgeois = middle class
proletariat = working class

What is the name for the rich?

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

bourgeois = middle class

iirc bourgeois is non-aristocratic upper class. But i guess it depends heavily on the context

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could be right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

~~It is possible that the meaning of "middle class" has changed. So Musk is middle class, but the lawyer or pizza shop owner are not.~~

Edit: shit, I should have read farther. Bourgeois is used in multiple ideologies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

The two classes are the proletariat, who make up the majority of the population within society and must sell their labor power to survive, and the bourgeoisie, a small minority that derives profit from employing the working class through private ownership of the means of production.

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