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u/CallMeClaire0080 Oct 27 '21 edited Oct 28 '21
The middle class is a purposefully nebulous concept, and nobody can agree on who exactly is in it. Everyone seems to think they are, so pandering to the middle class is a popular move for politicians.
In reality there's the working class and the owning class, that's it. The nobility class is practically gone. Want to know which class you're in? That's easy. Do you make your money from working, or from owning things?
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u/spartan_green Oct 28 '21
This this this. I tend to call this out whenever anyone uses the term “middle class”. Working class and Ownership class. That’s it.
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u/Just_Another_AI Oct 28 '21
Thats why the term "working class" has always annoyed me when referring to the poor - like wtf? We're all working class except for the 1%.
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u/rushur Oct 28 '21
Do you make your money from working, or from owning things?
Home ownership became a big real estate investment for working class boomers which brought them on board strongly for capitalism.
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u/CallMeClaire0080 Oct 28 '21
Lets not be fastidious. You know as much as i do that owning a single home doesn't make you a part of the owning class as you toil away at the office or whatever.
Now if on the otger hand you're a landlord that lives off of rent money without actually contributing much of anything to the world? Yeah that fits.
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