The proportion of wealth was a little off; this is a little closer to reality.
a little closer to reality
Imagining the rest of the enormous pillar of cookies is left to the viewer, I suppose. Hard to show a tower to Mars all in one frame. seethes quietly at wealth hoarders
Yeah but if the proportion of wealth was accurately reflected, we wouldn't be able to read the speech bubble because the cookies would obstruct it. That is why the artist wisely chose to ensmallen the wealth of the wealthy in this portrayal.
I prefer the original version with the Rupert Murdoch allusion.
Why did someone even change the text to just remove "mate"?
Because "mate" is an Australian thing. They were probably trying to localize it for a non Australian audience. While still valid, the meme hits differently if the rich person is also a foreigner.
The reference is to Rupert Murdoch; a man who hasn’t been Australian since 1985 when he gave up his Australian Citizenship to become naturalised as an American. He created NewsCorp which became the Fox Corporation; one of the most politically viable and mainstream news sources of the 20th and 21st centuries in the US media landscape.
The revocation of the word ‘mate’ just honestly shows that Americans are so very alien to the concept of immigrants that even an Anglophonic immigrant who’s been a US citizen for almost 40 years still isn’t somehow ‘American’ if their slang hasn’t been fully naturalised as well.
I thought that wanker looked familiar :p
Original source: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2656977204337311
Denis Lushch - ‘The Bullshit Weaver’
It bugs me that this image has been altered and reproduced so many times without crediting the artist. It’s a wonderful political cartoon and very pointedly aimed at Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp.
Reform UK summed up
This is highly unrealistic. The working man has a cookie? A whole one? It's not believable. A fourth of a cookie, maybe.
Yeah, I was thinking the same, the worker would have crumb you'd need a microscope to see and the capitalist would be sitting on a mountain of cookies so big you couldn't even see him from the ground ...
That's accurate.
I'm laughing at this because in my state, a bunch of second generation latino construction workers are upset that Mexican construction workers are doing their jobs. And their solution was to vote for Trump, who would lock them all up in cages.
Old guy needs a larger pile of cookies and to be setting that guy's house aflame to make more.
Why don't the workers get all the cookies? Are they stupid?
They're complacent and short-sighted.
Wow, that’s what it’s all about right now.
Careful cookie! The foreigner wants you.
More like: Oh, you want workers rights and a living wage? Meet the scab who is replacing you. He works for less and takes more abuse.
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