What is the equivalent word for sexism as applied to the difference between the have and havenots?
Just curios in the wake of the new tax bill.
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The difference between the haves and the have nots is mostly money. America is dividing into the wealthy aristocracy and the poor peasantry like Europe in the 19th century. It is not the way America was meant to be. Trump’s tax bill makes things worse.
classism
They only call it class warfare when we fight back.
I am over it! Women need equal respect. Poor people need equal respect. None of us are going anywhere without the rest of us.
I would say classism too.
Economic classism.
People of the same economic class can discriminate over social class.
Aristocracy – - – A form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.
Worthism (also known as Wealthism).
Definition of Worthism
1 : prejudice or discrimination based on wealth; especially : discrimination against the working poor.
2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on wealth.
The opposite is Hoi Polloism?
Capitalism and oligarchy seem like two good fits.
Alfuensa? Privileged? Legacy?
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