• ComradeSharkfucker
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    2 months ago

    Class is your relationship to the means of production not how much money you make. The labor aristocracy is still working class despite having better material conditions.

    This understanding of class was designed by the owning class to divide the workers into who is better than who so that they won’t realize they have the same interests and organize against the bourgeoisie

    • @whotookkarl
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      132 months ago

      100%, the owning class is the wealth/capital class. Everyone else is working class. If you need to work to continue to have basic needs met like housing, food, healthcare, education, etc you are working class.

      Also disrubtion -> disruption in the first experiences box.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    This needs to be in ratios VS cost of living values.

    NY/LA VS Hayes Kansas, $100k is a very different thing.

    • @5opn0o30
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      -22 months ago

      Then NY owning class always say that.

  • edric
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    142 months ago

    I feel like the huge range in the upper class (106k to 461k) is too large to lump everyone into a single group. A person who earns 115k a year has a completely different lifestyle than someone who earns 250k a year. Whereas the top and bottom incomes of the middle to lower classes are likely comparable in terms of life experience.

    • sunzu
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      52 months ago

      You are focusing on the income too much here… after certain point, there is more to it.

      While you are right money wise… 106k could be entry level upper class (30 year old) v 450k end of career exec…

      It is really a same guy, just different age.

      People under estimate how much age impacts your income and assets, it makes sense tho.

      Old geezer with life time of work will be wealthier inherently against everyone who aint a nepo baby.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    I love that fifth pillar „Owning Class.“ It’s often not mentioned in such overviews but reveals most of the power structures im out world.

    Would be interesting to have an additional row of „Life Happiness“ Being super-rich doesn’t mean being super-happy in your life.

    • sunzu
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      22 months ago

      Yeah but being broke under the orphan crushing machine hardly leads to happiness.

      I am sure ton of “upper class” is happier than some of venerated “owners”

  • @VonCesaw
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    32 months ago

    You’d think they’d have put the Working Poor on there