Podemos sparks class resentment against high earners making €2,000 a month
A Podemos journalist calls people earning €2,000 a month 'fat cats'. The Burbuja.info forum erupts: merit, effort and responsibility versus egalitarianism.
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Podemos calls €2,000-a-month earners 'fat cats': the forum explodes
A Podemos journalist has achieved what seemed impossible: getting 99 members of Burbuja.info to agree on something. His offence: calling MIR doctors (medical residents in Spain) earning €2,000 a month 'fat cats' and equating them with cleaners. The thread is on fire, and not out of solidarity with the party.
The tweet that set the forum alight
Raúl Solís, a journalist at Canal Red (Pablo Iglesias's media outlet), published a series of tweets arguing that 'nobody should earn more than €2,000' and that an MIR doctor is no better than a care assistant. Forum members were quick to react. The replies, the usual measure on Burbuja, topped a hundred within 22 days. The tone: from outrage to sarcasm, with direct insults in between.
What really sparked the anger was not so much the content (already familiar from the radical left) but the audacity of questioning the difference between six years of university, an MIR and five years of specialisation, versus a job that, as one user put it, 'anyone with minimal training can do'. Most are not questioning the cleaner's dignity, but refusing to ignore the investment in training and responsibility.
The anti-Podemos consensus: merit, effort and responsibility
The arguments repeat themselves: 'Would you let a cleaner operate on you?' is the catchphrase that sums up the dominant view. Users insist that qualifying is not the same as cleaning, and that a surgeon's responsibility is worth more. Some point to ideological bias: 'These pogre have never done real work.' Others note that most cleaners are women over 40, PSOE voters, whom Podemos wants to use as a battering ram.
Some forum members wonder whether the problem is that Solís 'has never done a day's work' and is unaware of the cost of living in 2026: 'With €2,000 net you can't even get started.' Others dig up the old concept of the 'milleurista' (the thousand-euro generation) and update it: Podemos has gone from criticising €1,000 salaries to demanding them for everyone, except its own elites.
The nuances nobody wants to see
It is not unanimous. A couple of (minority) voices defend the underlying idea: the pay gap is unfair and essential jobs are underpaid. But they are quickly shouted down. The bulk of the thread sees the proposal as 'another smokescreen' to divert attention from the party's real problems, such as its corruption cases or its lack of representation.
The debate leaves a question hanging: how far can the left defend equality without sliding into resentment towards those who have studied and worked hard? Burbuja's forum members have a clear answer. Yours, you know where it gets debated.
Related debates on the forum
A Podemos journalist has achieved what seemed impossible: getting 99 members of Burbuja.info to agree on something. His offence: calling MIR doctors (medical residents in Spain) earning €2,000 a month 'fat cats' and equating them with cleaners. The thread is on fire, and not out of solidarity with the party.
The tweet that set the forum alight
Raúl Solís, a journalist at Canal Red (Pablo Iglesias's media outlet), published a series of tweets arguing that 'nobody should earn more than €2,000' and that an MIR doctor is no better than a care assistant. Forum members were quick to react. The replies, the usual measure on Burbuja, topped a hundred within 22 days. The tone: from outrage to sarcasm, with direct insults in between.
What really sparked the anger was not so much the content (already familiar from the radical left) but the audacity of questioning the difference between six years of university, an MIR and five years of specialisation, versus a job that, as one user put it, 'anyone with minimal training can do'. Most are not questioning the cleaner's dignity, but refusing to ignore the investment in training and responsibility.
The anti-Podemos consensus: merit, effort and responsibility
The arguments repeat themselves: 'Would you let a cleaner operate on you?' is the catchphrase that sums up the dominant view. Users insist that qualifying is not the same as cleaning, and that a surgeon's responsibility is worth more. Some point to ideological bias: 'These pogre have never done real work.' Others note that most cleaners are women over 40, PSOE voters, whom Podemos wants to use as a battering ram.
Some forum members wonder whether the problem is that Solís 'has never done a day's work' and is unaware of the cost of living in 2026: 'With €2,000 net you can't even get started.' Others dig up the old concept of the 'milleurista' (the thousand-euro generation) and update it: Podemos has gone from criticising €1,000 salaries to demanding them for everyone, except its own elites.
The nuances nobody wants to see
It is not unanimous. A couple of (minority) voices defend the underlying idea: the pay gap is unfair and essential jobs are underpaid. But they are quickly shouted down. The bulk of the thread sees the proposal as 'another smokescreen' to divert attention from the party's real problems, such as its corruption cases or its lack of representation.
The debate leaves a question hanging: how far can the left defend equality without sliding into resentment towards those who have studied and worked hard? Burbuja's forum members have a clear answer. Yours, you know where it gets debated.
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