'Yeah, so what?' Elites openly shrug at working-class pain caused by Trump

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By Brad Reed, Common Dreams
Published May 9, 2026 12:14 PM ET

Even as President Donald Trump’s war with Iran and tariffs on foreign goods are hammering working-class Americans, a new report shows that members of the US elite have never had it better.

As The Financial Times reported on Thursday, attendees at the annual Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills this week were living in “blissful ignorance” of the economic pain hitting workers in the US and around the world.

“People are glossing over the war with Iran,” an anonymous private credit firm executive told The Financial Times. “They’ve become desensitized to it. For some reason, people are saying, ‘Yeah, so what?’”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676873622/

Hey Financial Times why didn't you ask these "so what" and "do people really care" Bullshit give there fucking names............chickenshits...............and then the classic from Ted Koenig, chief executive of Monroe Capital..........

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"told The Financial Times that, while people at the conference were vaguely aware of the suffering of middle-class and working-class Americans, “at the end of the day, everyone’s focused on their own investment portfolios, especially here.”

No shit sherlock.................put on a uniform or better yet is any of your kids eligible for the draft.................put them in the barrel with that treasonous orange hair kid Barron....................

[jmbar2]

1. This theme is on heavy rotation on X right now...

- Rich people have no responsibility for the poor...
- Poor people are abusing their benefits, buying junk food
- Low wages are supply and demand - the invisible hand of the market
- Without billionaires, no one will have a job
- Billionaires pay a lot of taxes already
- The market is lifting all boats through 401Ks
- Anyone can be a billionaire if you work hard enough
-Rich people give to charities to help the poor

These are all old tropes. I'm not seeing coherent rebuttals yet, except from AOC. She seems to be triggering a lot of the "billionaire bots".

We need to develop and promote rebuttals that resonate with average people. Otherwise, the tropes just shame the poor, and silence everyone else.

[dickthegrouch]

2. If the poor all starve, or can't afford the gas to get to work ...

There'll be no-one to serve the billionaires
No-one to reap the crops
No-one to deliver the crops
No-one to cook for them
No-one to drive for them
No-one to wait on them hand and foot in their over-priced junk emporiums
No-one to buy their over-priced mech
No-one to "fluff" their egos

Except other vacuous billionaires like themselves.

They don't understand that at some point their billions become useless, and they're in the same boat as the rest of us.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Their only concern is how much money they are making. If the markets are good, they are happy.