How many of you have high paying jobs, and how have you prevented your material means and social circles from eroding your leftist convictions?
How many of you have high paying jobs, and how have you prevented your material means and social circles from eroding your leftist convictions?
I am on the precipice of one and don't want that to turn me into a disengaged normies, lib, or chud. I know that a local DSA chapter was financially backed by a person of incredible means, so I wonder what keeps such people left wing or at least SocDem.
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I'm not as highly paid as I probably could be given my skill set, but I'm comfortable where I'm at and that's all I've ever wanted. To be comfortable. To not have to think about my finances on a day-to-day basis. That said, I make more money than I ever have, and more than anyone around me, and the same is true for my partner.
What keeps my convictions from eroding is empathy and an (I think) mostly clear-eyed view of myself and how I got where I am. I'm not in this position because of how hard I worked, even though I did have to work to get here, nor am I an this position because I'm the best at what I do, though I think I'm pretty good at it. No, I could have done all the same things and ended up destitute if not for some social and professional connections, and the pure dumb luck of finding myself in the right places at the right times. Everywhere I look I can see smarter people working much harder and longer to barely keep their heads above water. Maybe it ultimately does come down to what resides at the core of your humanity. It would be so easy to believe that I deserve what I have because I was better and smarter and harder working than everyone else. But no, I deserve what I have because everyone deserves what I have, and I don't know how to ignore the desperate, crushing need all around me just because I got mine.