That doesnt take into account the people who go annually because they have family that work there and use the free tickets they get. Who are almost universally poorer than this would have them otherwise appear to be.
There's also the "all Disnied out" class who doesn't want to waste any more money buying tickets to stand in line at "The Evil Empire."
Fuck this noise. The only classes that matter are the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland, and everyone else. Quibbling over whose shit sandwich is bigger is just dividibg ourselves for their benefit.
“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.”
― Jim Trotter
This is being attributed to Jim Trotter, but I can't find a source for this claim. I can't even find when he is supposed to have said it…
It was definitely said in Mr. Robot (2015), and it was definitely not said in the movie The Skulls (2000), no one in that entire movie ever says "bank", despite what some people on reddit claim.
According to this blog post, the oldest tweet is from 28 Nov 2011 @Bonoboism.
Maybe someone else can find a better source.
Note: I'm linking only to archives, not to either reddit or xitter.
Nah there are plenty of edible rich people who aren't rich enough to own Disney Land
The wealthy people who can’t afford to own Disneyland are closer to you than they are the people who can afford to own Disneyland.
Don't care. They still go on the block.
Sounds like you've fallen for class division propaganda.
There are billionaires and not-billionaires.
The difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is roughly a billion dollars.
That's a great way to run out of allies. You're closer to being homeless than a billionaire. All war is class war, however know thine enemy. There's over 1400 billionaires in the US. That's plenty to start with. We can start quibbling over the rest after that 1400.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/a-clear-eyed-look-at-the-consolidation-of-a-billionaire-class/
I consider it more of a spectrum, those who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the one hand and those who are fucked the most by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the other. Not everyone is equally fucked by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland. But you're right about the shit sandwich.
I understand what you're trying to do with the 'class is the only thing that matters', but I don't think that is going to fly well in the US, specifically and especially when trying to get groups with troubled histories between one another to work together.
Trying to unify people by ignoring or erasing their personal or communal identities and histories is not going to be effective at unification IMO.
You sound like a Russian propagandist. It's us against billionaires trying to eat our planet. It doesn't get more complex than that.
1 person does not get to decide how 99% of the resources are spent.
I can assure you i'm not a Russian propagandist. You can look through my post history if you don't believe me. I'd argue right now it's pretty clear that the comment I'm replying to is unapologetically the propaganda here. It's not even that I disagree with the sentiment. It's just a bad argument for winning over folks in the US, which is full of division, and diversity of culture and opinion.
Just, like, think for even a second about who you are trying to unite against billionaires. It includes black communities, and the police who have often terrorized and weakened those communities. It includes both those who are homeless and NIMBY communities who've constantly lobbied to deny those homeless any type of help. It includes immigrants, and blue collar workers who've constantly attacked immigrants.
Regardless of whether this violence was motivated by the oppression of the ruling class, these are still actively ongoing acts of violence between working class individuals and groups. That bad blood shouldn't be ignored. The tagline " the ruling class is our only enemy" rings hollow for those actively being attacked by other groups within the working class. The solution should not be to hand-wavingly say "let's all just get along and unite forces". It needs to be actively engaging with these groups, and winning people over by actually stopping the violence they experience locally.
Bad blood won't get solved by doing nothing either. People need a common goal. Fighting against billionaires is one billions of people can get behind regardless of other demographics. It doesn't solve the bad blood and it doesn't erase identities it simply reminds us we can be allies against the larger issue first.
It is a catch-22 to solve the bad blood you mention before going after the billionaires because the billionaires will continue causing more bad blood and more division in the meantime. As showcased by Trump, decades of building torn down in 3mo. Doesn't matter that he decreased taxes for the rich or openly manipulates the market for himself and other rich bastards he's convinced 1/3 of America that its all worth it to hurt sexual and/or racial minorities. By the time you fix one divide he's created another 5.
This.
50% of the economy in the US is controlled by the "Whenever the fuck I want" class.
Education levels in the US:
As a British guy who worked in the USA for a while, my colleagues couldn’t fathom that I had no interest in going to Disneyland. It was kinda weird the obsession some of them had with it.
Cult of Disney is eerily real. Maybe it's the US version of how some Brits obsess over the royalty.
Once dated a girl who's family who had season passes to Disney.
Neither I nor they even live in the USA.
There should be another Disney class. The “Lightning Pass/Stayed at a Disney Resort/going to multiple parks over several days” Class
The park fees alone are pretty expensive if you’d like to see more than just “Disneyland” and want to see EPCOT, Studios, etc. The try to ride the rides during any popular season you buy Lightning Passes for hundreds or even a thousand more per person, pay for parking over multiple days, stay at an expensive “resort” property…
Yeah. You can go “cheap” and stay off property, but it’s a whole different experience.
I don't think this works. I know DINKs and single people who work normal jobs (and a shitload of overtime) and go to Disney like six times a year because they're total Disney freaks. Like, adult Disney people who get Disney tattoos and shit. It's a whole vibe.
No kids and they choose to go to Disney? You could go to any number of foreign cities or beautiful beaches and they choose Disney? Wtf?
Why go to any number of foreign cities when you can visit everything in Epcot?
/s
Literally what someone I knew said one time when I criticized them for going to Disney a bajillionth time instead of literally anywhere else in the world.
And there I was debating whether or not an \s was really needed.
Not accurate. Plenty of broke people go to Disney regularly. I know a couple of them.
Yeah there's the 'goes into debt to go to disney' crowd. That's me.
I'm a native Floridian who's never been to Disney. Other Floridians seem disgusted by my presence when it comes up
Disney, where you have to be told how to have fun, where to take pictures and pay too much for crap made in China.
Fuck Disney, fuck dividing the non-super rich
The really wealthy families aren’t going to a Disney park either. Their kids have had passports since before they could walk, and the family is going to an exclusive foreign resort for a trip that costs more for a week than most folks make in a year.
My Uncle and his family are like this, his kids are adults now and they still go to Disney every year.
We're Canadian. and he is a staunch opponent of the Canadian Healthcare system, He believes that because he can personally throw money at a Doctor, that everyone should be treated that way, first paid first served.
Long ago when the family lived in Florida near Orlando and prices were a lot cheaper, resident discounts made a whole summer's worth of visits worth it. We realized the hypocrisy when the kids started getting bored of certain rides because they had done them so much, meanwhile some people even then would save up money for a one time visit of a day or so.
But overall the kids did have fun. It was a unique thing to experience.
I believe this only applies to the USA portion of America and not the other 29 countries
+4. rents out the entire park for an exclusive vacations
This is the right answer.
Club 33 is the name of a number of private dining clubs. As of March 2025, the reported cost to join had increased to $80,000 with annual costs of $22,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_33
People who go to Disneyland multiple times a year could be just a Disney gay who lives close to the park. They are not some exclusive class.
Went to Disney 3x. Once when my grandpa died, then my grandma, then my dad. Allllll paid for by life insurance payouts. Not sure where I fit in here.
Grave robber
I know this is a joke but there's people who don't accept life insurance payouts because they legitimately feel this way.
Seems like a gross misunderstanding of life insurance and the wishes of the deceased, but people get weird about death.
That's super strange. I hope they're wealthy.
We'll let you hang out in the middle group.
I went once in my early 20s. Drove all night with a friend and stayed with his grandparents. Figured I should see what it's like since my parents didn't have vacation money when I was a kid.
Magic Kingdom was pretty lame to a 23 year old stoner. Should have spent the gas money on drugs.
This implies we all want to go to disney as if it is the ultimate goal to work towards. I'd rather go to the ZOO.
Is there a "went to Disney recently and didn't like it" category?
Not anymore, you're now declared an undesirable immigrant and will be deported.
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