Why the Rich Are So Afraid of Your Groceries Being Free
The rich are not afraid you’ll get something for free. They’re afraid they won’t look special anymore.
Their power is not just money, it’s the performance of being above need status-performanceClass identity depends on visible distinctions of comfort and ease..
If groceries are free, everyone eats with the same ease.
And if everyone eats with the same ease, what is wealth performing?
The Deservingness Myth
We are taught that comfort must be earned:
- through labor,
- through discipline,
- through sacrifice.
But this story exists to preserve hierarchy.
Because if everyone deserves to eat, then everyone deserves to rest. If everyone deserves to rest, then everyone deserves time, softness, and a future.
And the wealthy lose the one thing they have always held: the power to deny it.
Free Groceries Are a Threat Because They End the Game
If eating is no longer conditional, obedience is no longer rational controlScarcity enforces hierarchy by making survival contingent on compliance..
If we eat without permission, we stop asking permission.
That is the nightmare.
Not hunger ending.
Power ending.
Because once people know:
Food is a right, not a reward—
They start asking:
What else was never meant to be earned?