The Pyramid
The Pyramid is a basic symbol used by the ruling class and its peons to refer to a hierarchy of wealth and privilege. Lower levels on the pyramid represent lower social/economic classes.
Related Terms
The System > Economic Class, Exploitation, Ideology, Karl Marx, Labour Value, Maya, Money, Neurodecolonization, Proletariat, The Pyramid
Notes
The pyramid is sometimes represented with an eye at the top. The eye symbolizes the notion that it is only the social class at the very top which that the complete truth, i.e. that we are all enslaved in a Regime of Accumulation about the world.
In the graphic below, the pyramid is represented in a critical way, showing how the various social classes benefit from, are complicit in, and work to reproduce, The System.
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