Temporarily embarassed millionaire moment (even though I recently found out its a misquote*).
*The quote was apparentally originally criticizing how self-labelled communists in groups tended to be middle-class “temporarily embarassed millionaires” who romanticized the working class. Which I think is sometimes quite true. But I also think the misquote version is also true. Where the working class believe in the American Dream and myths about self-made millionaires and thus work against their own self interest.
Champagne socialists is really the more appropriate term for those folk, it sounds like the misquote was well-used for once. Temporarily-embarrassed millionaires is one of my favorite ways to describe American wealth worship and delusion from working-class people who have never had a fucking chance of becoming a multi-millionaire.
Temporarily embarassed millionaire moment (even though I recently found out its a misquote*).
*The quote was apparentally originally criticizing how self-labelled communists in groups tended to be middle-class “temporarily embarassed millionaires” who romanticized the working class. Which I think is sometimes quite true. But I also think the misquote version is also true. Where the working class believe in the American Dream and myths about self-made millionaires and thus work against their own self interest.
Champagne socialists is really the more appropriate term for those folk, it sounds like the misquote was well-used for once. Temporarily-embarrassed millionaires is one of my favorite ways to describe American wealth worship and delusion from working-class people who have never had a fucking chance of becoming a multi-millionaire.
I whole heartedly agree