Class Envy
December 29, 2010
Half Sigma has a great post about - gasp! - unions. Aren't unions evil?
There was a blog post on a certain popular libertarian economics blog about how stagehands make a really good salary. “At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.”
Instead of lauding the stagehands for using Harvard-MBA-level business strategy to increase their profit, the readers of the libertarian blog are outraged that they are making money.
You fucking idiots hate working stiffs who earn more money than you, but have nothing to say about Wall Street. Because hating people who steal trillions in taxpayer money is class envy. Why hate the rich for being successful?! How dare you tax success?!
The libertard/conservative brainwashing has been interesting to observe. The guy pounding nails at Avery Fisher Hall is like you - just a regular working stiff. You hate him. The guy watching a show at Avery Fisher Hall is nothing like you, and indeed, he steals from you. You love him, and hate those who would tax him.
By the way, the libertarian blog bashing unions is Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution. Tyler Cowen is CEO of the Mercatus Center - which is a non-profit [sic] funded by Wall Street bankers. He and other ministers of propoganda serve their masters well, as they turn you against your natural allies. Investments into "think tanks" like Mercatus pay dividends well beyond the 30 pieces of silver.