No hate for the middle class. I can’t help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.
No hate for the middle class. I can’t help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.
Ok. I will try to make it very clear:
The GOP (american republicans) have defined the “middle class” as any family making a combined income in excess of $400k.
$400k is a lot of money, and I think it’s a different amount than what people hold in their heads as being “middle class”.
People seem to group people into two categories: the wealthy and everyone else. Of everyone else, people seem to think that if they have certain things (a house, a job, a picket fence, etc…) that they are middle class. They seem to think that middle class is the “middle” of the population of earners, with the wealthy at the top and the poor at the bottom.
The thing is, the middle class is a myth made up to advance class warfare. The truth of the matter is, if you need to work to make a living, you are part of the working poor. That may not have been how it was, but it sure is how it is.
Anything else I can clear up?
I think you’ve maybe finally said the part out loud that before you were only saying in your own head:
You believe that it’s a binary state between “The Working Poor”, and “Does not need to work to live”. You do not believe in the existence of a class of people who work, but comfortably meet their needs and could weather several years of unemployment.
It’s not a true binary. I am describing that most americans believe there’s a binary and that of the working folk, their salary puts them in a certain class.
I haven’t explained my personal beliefs, just the beliefs of most americans (at least the ones I have interacted with) and the beliefs of the GOP.