A separate but related endeavor, the TikTok hashtag eattherich has also spawned hundreds of videos, which abound with a nascent class-based resentment sprung from the pages of Marx and into meme-ready soundbites.
Serve on a bed of rocket with a side of coleslaw. These days, politicians have slowly begun to awaken to the restive national mood, with progressive bellwether candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders explicitly focusing on taming the excesses of billionaires and demanding further contribution to the public good from the gilded class. Talia Lavin is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her first book, 'Culture Warlords,' is forthcoming in from Hachette Books. By Drew Magary.
By Doug Bock Clark. In recent years, people have begun to use the phrase eat the rich in association with not only the millionaire and billionaire class, but for when people show subtle signs of wealth. Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau coined the phrase.
People were starving in the streets, and he used to quote to state that the people will rise up and take over the ruling class one they are fed up with living with no food while the upper class lives a life of luxury with little care for the lower class. During this time in the French Revolution, the king had been executed and The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen had been passed, but the lower class was still literally starving from a lack of food.
Rousseau thus coined his famous term, and that phrase still resonates with people around the world today. This phrase has made a recent comeback as the wage and income gap in the United States has grown. This has caused many people to try and boycott Amazon, but because they are often the lowest price and fastest possible delivery, it is the lower class who needs to continue to use it. The phrase eat the rich has re-emerged in response to these dynamics.
The phrase eat the rich is used when people are discussing income disparity or when someone does something that they do not realize makes them come off as out of touch with the lower income classes. This phrase can be used at protests or on social media, but can also be used in conversation.
Matt: It was awesome. I saw some woman wearing an eat the rich shirt in first class. She got on and off the plane first, had private escorts, and still thought she could rock that shirt. So out of touch. Claire Rich. While the monarchs led glamorous lives, the common people struggled to find moldy bread to feed their families. Ninety-eight percent of the population in France belonged to the Third Estate, the lowest class. Despite the massive size of the Third Estate, its members had little to no representation in the government.
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