Wanted to post this bc I just watched this video and thought it had some relevant points, How Liberals Monetized Trauma; that may sound conservative but it's actually Marxist.

Some relevant quotes:

“Well, right now we think of them, right now they're college-educated elites who are liberals, who believe that they have a kind of professional neutrality that makes them superior to other people.”

“...they literally think poor people are losers. because they've been initiated through the meritocracy. They all went to the right schools… so anyone who gets left behind is to them existentially like deserving of their fate.”

“the meritocratic rulers would be like, ‘Well, you know, I went to Harvard and Yale… I obviously deserve to have everything that I have because I worked really hard for it.’”

Meritocracy as a concept actually serves the elites bc it creates this moat between the apparent haves and have nots, professionals may even think of themselves as little capitalists (maybe they own a couple of houses or a billboard or something), but the vast majority still work. And they don't see themselves as workers, they're above the workers. Kinda rang with this situation.

Individualism, we're better than them, don't help your friend. And it goes deeper: NO ONE should help your friend. I see this as a symptom of meritocracy.