richsplaining

The elitist notion that poverty is itself ennobling—that working people should be forced to chase “jam tomorrow” as if they were so many horses on a track, and thus appear “at their most exciting” to people like C.P. Snow—is alive and well in the tax-cutting austeritarians of today from Theresa May to Paul Ryan, all still richsplaining to everybody else that we really ought to be pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps and Succeeding, while the privileged like themselves remain conspicuously “free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise.”

Jam Tomorrow Tom Scocca 2023