What the 1% want for the rest of us.

[Locrian]

5. economic man

The 1% have a complete disdain for anyone not feeding the economic engine. And the more intimate you are to that, the more worth you have.

So any other pursuit that doesn't feed it, or any manual labor or mental labor not directly tied to that fantasy is debased.

With the shift to pure speculation vs manufacturing etc - the gap is even larger: only the ones shuffling the $$ around and creating $$ out of thin air are valued.

The rest of us they treat as ignorant suckers, not fit to control their own lives. We're commodities / cattle to be manipulated and extorted for profit.