https://youtu.be/Nd7cohTdRAo?t=450

You will benefit from seeing class in this more practical way, because right now, politicians and the people who finance their campaigns are the ones benefiting from the vague definition that keeps things the way they are, in their interest.

And just so we’re clear about how I’m defining class, here it is: Society is divided into two classes, not three, not four, not five. On the one hand, there are those who need to work to live, and on the other, those who have the privilege to make other people work so they don’t have to.

So long as you exchange your mental or physical energy for a salary, you are part of the working class. The class of people that works. A term which I know is confusing because to most people “working class” just means “poor,” but here it literally means what it says, regardless of whether the work you do is white-collar or blue-collar.

The remaining few who make most if not the entirety of their money through rents, speculation, or profit, mainly by owning things like companies or housing, not through their own work, are called the capitalist class, or the owner class.