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Fuck this noise. The only classes that matter are the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland, and everyone else. Quibbling over whose shit sandwich is bigger is just dividibg ourselves for their benefit.
“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.”
― Jim Trotter
This is being attributed to Jim Trotter, but I can’t find a source for this claim. I can’t even find when he is supposed to have said it…
It was definitely said in Mr. Robot (2015), and it was definitely not said in the movie The Skulls (2000), no one in that entire movie ever says “bank”, despite what some people on reddit claim.According to this blog post, the oldest tweet is from 28 Nov 2011 @Bonoboism.
Maybe someone else can find a better source.
Note: I’m linking only to archives, not to either reddit or xitter.
This.
50% of the economy in the US is controlled by the “Whenever the fuck I want” class.
I consider it more of a spectrum, those who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the one hand and those who are fucked the most by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the other. Not everyone is equally fucked by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland. But you’re right about the shit sandwich.
Nah there are plenty of edible rich people who aren’t rich enough to own Disney Land
The wealthy people who can’t afford to own Disneyland are closer to you than they are the people who can afford to own Disneyland.
Don’t care. They still go on the block.
Sounds like you’ve fallen for class division propaganda.
There are billionaires and not-billionaires.
The difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is roughly a billion dollars.
That’s a great way to run out of allies. You’re closer to being homeless than a billionaire. All war is class war, however know thine enemy. There’s over 1400 billionaires in the US. That’s plenty to start with. We can start quibbling over the rest after that 1400.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/a-clear-eyed-look-at-the-consolidation-of-a-billionaire-class/
Yes, eat some billionaires, and then give everyone left a choice: Glorious Revolution or French Revolution.
That doesnt take into account the people who go annually because they have family that work there and use the free tickets they get. Who are almost universally poorer than this would have them otherwise appear to be.
I have friends that used to go to Disney 2-3 times a year. They did not live in Florida. They used to spend so much money to go multiple times a year.
They are now declaring bankruptcy.
Going to Disney is just keeping up with the Joneses.
This implies we all want to go to disney as if it is the ultimate goal to work towards. I’d rather go to the ZOO.
I don’t think this works. I know DINKs and single people who work normal jobs (and a shitload of overtime) and go to Disney like six times a year because they’re total Disney freaks. Like, adult Disney people who get Disney tattoos and shit. It’s a whole vibe.
No kids and they choose to go to Disney? You could go to any number of foreign cities or beautiful beaches and they choose Disney? Wtf?
Why go to any number of foreign cities when you can visit everything in Epcot?
/s
Literally what someone I knew said one time when I criticized them for going to Disney a bajillionth time instead of literally anywhere else in the world.
And there I was debating whether or not an \s was really needed.
Tell me about it. I think it’s bonkers.
DINKs are already an entirely separate class tbh.
Very expensive. Hwuh huh.
Is that Doug Funnie’s neighbor?
Yup!
Is that when Doug broke his grill?
I went to Disney once and I have to say I was not impressed. I mean once you went and saw it why would you go back?
I mean, the rides are pretty fun, and I could probably spend an entire week in Epcot, but it’s definitely more of an every few years thing rather than multiple times a year.
I mean people have different tastes. Some people like going backpacking around Southeast Asia. Some people like to just do road trips around the US. Some people like to fancy cultural things in France. And some people like Disney. It’s not going to be for everyone.
They get new rides, new installments, new exclusive merch, etc., but you’re right for the most part.
I would go back with my kids.
Also, typhoon lagoon is very repeatable.
Same. I went about 25 years ago when my kids were little, and I still think it’s too soon to go back.
The amazing thing to me is that Disney used to be cheap entertainment. 1955 admission was $1.10 with rides costing 10 to 35 cents. A teenager could take a date there for what they’d earn in an afternoon. Prices for movies, sporting events, and concerts were similar.
This is known as the cost disease. As manufacturing gets increasingly optimized, automated and cheap, the share of income that needs to be spent on everything else increases. For example, housing and services like live entertainment or healthcare.
cost disease. I never heard of this before.
Education levels in the US:
- Calls it Disney
- Calls it by the location of the park
- Calls it by the actual name of the specific park
Not accurate. Plenty of broke people go to Disney regularly. I know a couple of them.
Yeah there’s the ‘goes into debt to go to disney’ crowd. That’s me.
Most of them up and move their entire lives to be within driving distance of it even when unable to afford. Disney families are something else
My Uncle and his family are like this, his kids are adults now and they still go to Disney every year.
We’re Canadian. and he is a staunch opponent of the Canadian Healthcare system, He believes that because he can personally throw money at a Doctor, that everyone should be treated that way, first paid first served.
Fuck Disney, fuck dividing the non-super rich
There should be another Disney class. The “Lightning Pass/Stayed at a Disney Resort/going to multiple parks over several days” Class
The park fees alone are pretty expensive if you’d like to see more than just “Disneyland” and want to see EPCOT, Studios, etc. The try to ride the rides during any popular season you buy Lightning Passes for hundreds or even a thousand more per person, pay for parking over multiple days, stay at an expensive “resort” property…
Yeah. You can go “cheap” and stay off property, but it’s a whole different experience.
Eh, this doesn’t quite hold up. Grandparents are retired boomers in Florida so you get to go all summer, but your parents are living paycheck to paycheck.
galaxy brain – doesn’t want to go to disney
Their advertising made me actively not want to go. They show kids screaming with joy at their parents saying they are going. My reaction would have been like, ok. I knew this, I didn’t want to go because I felt like I would disappoint my parents with a lack of excitement over going.
I love Jenny Nicholson but I avoid her videos about theme parks just so I don’t develop my own obsession with Disney. I already like Nintendo too much…
+4. rents out the entire park for an exclusive vacations
I would say: Owns Disney
How much of Disney and where private jet
