As a group, privleged workers display different behaviour than other workers and tend to share similar priorities - which is very similar to a class.
Exactly.
And as the nature of the typical job changed - from industrial and agricultural line work to office, sales, and service sector work - we experienced a boom in the Professional Managerial Class. The advent of the business school, the consultant class, and modern middle management created a workforce whose job revolved around surveilling and expropriating additional labor from ground level workers.
Graeber explorers this more fully in “Bullshit Jobs”. But there’s a real material schism between workers performing real value-add labor and workers who exist largely to steal or extort from one another.
Exactly.
And as the nature of the typical job changed - from industrial and agricultural line work to office, sales, and service sector work - we experienced a boom in the Professional Managerial Class. The advent of the business school, the consultant class, and modern middle management created a workforce whose job revolved around surveilling and expropriating additional labor from ground level workers.
Graeber explorers this more fully in “Bullshit Jobs”. But there’s a real material schism between workers performing real value-add labor and workers who exist largely to steal or extort from one another.