apricops:

I know this is kinda Controversial but I think it’s important to at the very least acknowledge that highly-paid but salaried/freelance professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers, engineers) also suffer and have legitimate greivances under the capitalist system. The oppression of capitalism is so much more than just the size of your paycheck – 

There’s the nickel and diming of your very health through long hours and inability to take time off, which often denies even professionals the chance to fully heal and recuperate after injuries. 

There’s the same absence of workplace autonomy, never knowing if one day you might walk in and have changes forced upon you without so much as a warning, let along asking for your feedback.

Even if they don’t blame capitalism specifically, many professionals I’ve known are well aware that things are, well, fucked. But they’re also well aware that they could be fired from their locol monopoly for so much as a peep, and that there are likely already dozens of people with their same degree and experience working in coffee shops who will fill that gap almost instantly.

The higher income of professionals makes it easier for them to patch up the cuts that the capitalist system gives them every day, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t also being hurt.

Yup. A lot of them also KNOW they’re in a weird pyramid scheme where working 60 hours a week will result in some day becoming partner in that big law firm and being able to exploit younger lawyers while still working 60 hours a week and they like… honestly seem convinced that that’s a good deal? Like, they work so much they’re hardly alive outside if work and they don’t think they’re exploited by the system because an 1200 dollar suit isn’t what exploitation looks like?

They’re like that man who spends his entire day anxious about not being ‘man enough’ and still thinks the Patriarchy is a sweet deal for him.