return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoPoll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their liveswww.thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1566arrow-down111cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-linkPoll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their liveswww.thehill.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square112fedilinkcross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
minus-squarePopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-25 months agoWe’ve really bastardized the terms middle class and working class. It’s feeding into the class warfare that is being used against us. If you have to physically work for a living, you are working class. Let’s point our ire at the correct people here.
minus-squareScroll Responsibly@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 months agoIf your income is primarily from your labor (physical or not) and not from the capital that you own, you are working class.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoSpeaking of class only contributed to class warfare only insofar as you see class warfare as the inevitable outcome of class distinctions.
We’ve really bastardized the terms middle class and working class. It’s feeding into the class warfare that is being used against us.
If you have to physically work for a living, you are working class. Let’s point our ire at the correct people here.
If your income is primarily from your labor (physical or not) and not from the capital that you own, you are working class.
Speaking of class only contributed to class warfare only insofar as you see class warfare as the inevitable outcome of class distinctions.