Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Now you’re just playing with definitions.

  “Middle class” is the term most people use.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I mostly agree. They’re synonymous today, but I think there’s still an important distinction.

    The term “middle class” is distinct from the “lower class.” But those two are more or less the same when compared to the “upper class” (what I would call the “wealth class”). Both lower and middle classes need to work in order to survive, while the wealth class has enough money to live without working (many of them still work, but it’s optional for them).

    Any distinction between lower and middle class ends up harming both, and allowing the upper class to hoard more wealth. I generally try to promote the term “working class” because it doesn’t divide us, and more accurately portrays the differences between classes.

    An illustration in this vein:

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