Econo-dysphoria

Econo-dysphoria

 

Kaitlyn Jenner transgresses gender boundaries, Rachel Dolezal transgresses race boundaries, and gender and race are big deals in America; but our nation’s big-daddy-o injustice centers on class.

Therefore I wish to share with you my own identity dysphoria. It is an issue that I have struggled with my entire life, but only now can identify; and so I come out now, to you.

You see, I am a billionaire in a thousandaire’s body.

Inwardly, I am monstrously rich, but the banks only acknowledge one millionth of what is rightfully my own. That’s their fault, not mine. It’s how the Man conspires to keep me down.

If only I could access the money that I feel I should have, then I would be buying legislatures and financing brilliant cultural innovations and re-engineering entire economies. I would be making a much bigger difference in the world than I do now.

Please do not make light of my misfortune. It has caused real suffering for myself and for those I love. I would gladly make the transition, despite the trouble of doing so, but alas there are no effective therapies, or competent specialists, addressing my condition.

          I have long struggled with this privately, but I suspect that I am far from alone in this. If any of you also suffer from econo-dysphoria, then please come out too. In solidarity there is strength.

          What’s that? You say that I’m joking? That I’m not really that rich? So is gender negotiable, and race is almost negotiable, but class is not negotiable at all? Is the thickness of one’s wallet more genuine than the color of one’s skin, the shape of one’s genitalia, or the contents of one’s character?

Well then, that goes to show what this culture really thinks is real!