"Disparity By Design" is about elitism and how people tell their kids that "they can be anything they want to be", but this is not actually be true. The system is rigged so that those who are rich will stay rich, and their children will have the free ride through life because their parents were doctors or lawyers or CEOs. So the system is designed to cause disparity to all the people who actually work hard and believe that they can go as high as their abilities will take them.
It's about how the social class structure is extremely rigid in America and how the richest people resist the upward movement of people from the middle class. How far a kid might go in life depends on whether their parents went to Ivy League Schools or are some wealthy investor. When a person from the middle class fails to make it "big time" a rich snob can just say "Oh, well you didn't work as hard as I did." When in reality it is the system that is designed to screw over the middle class people.
And in the end the narrator says,
"Like a single domino
That falls like the rest stay vertical
We're fed these empty fairy tales
And I'm through believing"
Meaning that he's not going to keep on believing the lies the people at the top are saying when they speak the words, "Work hard and one day you can be like me." because he knows it's just not true.
I don't think it's necessarily against capitalism, just against the social elites who have designed the system so that it is not the best person who gets to the top. They hold others down in order to keep themselves where they are in life.
"Disparity By Design" is about elitism and how people tell their kids that "they can be anything they want to be", but this is not actually be true. The system is rigged so that those who are rich will stay rich, and their children will have the free ride through life because their parents were doctors or lawyers or CEOs. So the system is designed to cause disparity to all the people who actually work hard and believe that they can go as high as their abilities will take them.
It's about how the social class structure is extremely rigid in America and how the richest people resist the upward movement of people from the middle class. How far a kid might go in life depends on whether their parents went to Ivy League Schools or are some wealthy investor. When a person from the middle class fails to make it "big time" a rich snob can just say "Oh, well you didn't work as hard as I did." When in reality it is the system that is designed to screw over the middle class people.
And in the end the narrator says,
"Like a single domino That falls like the rest stay vertical We're fed these empty fairy tales And I'm through believing"
Meaning that he's not going to keep on believing the lies the people at the top are saying when they speak the words, "Work hard and one day you can be like me." because he knows it's just not true.
I don't think it's necessarily against capitalism, just against the social elites who have designed the system so that it is not the best person who gets to the top. They hold others down in order to keep themselves where they are in life.
Middle Class FTW!