I’m late to the game - but someone (Jason Read) has recut that creepy Redrow luxury apartment building advert (notes on that here) with American Psycho, as it so richly deserved.
[Image description: A series of four tweets by All Possums Go To Heaven (@HeavenlyPossum). Transcript follows.
First tweet is a QRT of Drew Hancock (@lockoutdays): “Saying the bottom 95% isn’t wealthy because the top 1% is wealthier is like saying I’m not tall at 6'3" because Shaq is 7 feet tall”. The QRT by @HeavenlyPossum reads: “Except that the rich are quite literally rich because everyone else is poor.
Wealth doesn’t exist independent of poverty. Wealth is a social claim to gatekeep access to resources, so that people who lack that claim must labor for you to access those resources to survive.”
Second tweet: “‘A poor person in America with a phone and a fridge is richer than any medieval king!’
Except the king didn’t worry about where his next meal would come from, or whether he could heat his hall, or whether he’d be fired from his job because his car wouldn’t start.”
Third tweet: “The king didn’t worry about those things because his wealth translated into command over people who would labor for him or give him things he wanted.
Wealth isn’t ‘stuff,’ it’s a social relationship of command.”
Fourth tweet: “Poverty is the flip side: a social relationship of precariousness that drives subordination.
Poverty has real measurable effects on health and lifespan that can’t be explained by a lack of as much “stuff” as the rich, but can be explained by a response to chronic stress.”
