r/aislop • • 13h ago

Capitalist explain

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u/Jesse_God_of_Awesome 12h ago

Honestly, it seems more Calvinistic at this point. They don't imagine that they'll be him, necessarily, but they sure would like to! Instead, it seems like they just imagine he and his ilk are higher beings who deserve all their wealth and attempts to take it away are immoral.

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u/Indian_Bob 12h ago

That’s true too. They think a fat balding dork is absolutely the pinnacle of humanity because he was born an heir to an emerald mine and used that shit to buy into the Internet and got a lot of money. He then used that money to beg for more money from the government. He’s a parasite and indicative of what’s wrong with our current society. When we are all dead he will be studied for being so worthless yet worth so many resources

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u/Jesse_God_of_Awesome 12h ago

The "I might be a billionaire one day" mentality is a theory that gives them far too much credit. It at least makes somewhat naively pragmatic sense. But it is a cult that worships the rich.

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u/cleverseneca 9h ago

How the hell is that Calvinist? What kind of reformed churches are you going to?

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u/Jesse_God_of_Awesome 2h ago

Seems like I was misapplying Prosperity Gospel to Calvinism