As the saying goes, “most of the working class are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires”
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Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 day agopart of it is that the working class, poor to people who incorrectly think they’re middle class included, basically everyone who is not ownership class (where owning things is the primary means of making them money), utterly fail to organize, and sometimes actively work against their own interests (like the “lets make a third party!” morons, the “I am morally superior for not voting” morons, and or course the actively malicious “I let the billionaires tell me that them fucking me was actually brown people’s fault” morons.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I don’t even think they think this. I think its small potatoes compared to the ones who are convinced that skin colour is like shirt colour in middle school sports, and that means they’re all on one team and the ones who don’t think that are traitors.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I hate the use of working class that excludes front line workers who very much still work for a living. Why call it working class if it’s just a fancy name for lower class instead of fully including all workers?
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
???
I certainly include them in my definition.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I took. > Incorrectly think they’re middle class
As to assume you didn’t. But clearly my assumption was wrong
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What I was meaning to say is that people who are working class think that they are middle class because they aren’t destitute, yet they have no significant assets, and could not survive an extreme financial event.
I just feel that politicians use middle class as a weapon where when they talk about policies benefitting the middle class they often benefit people far richer than the median but people think they mean them.