And Elon musk does not represent you. Stop talking like his fight is your fight. We’re not all in this together.
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Whoa.
It's an interesting take on classism in the US, and it's certainly compelling. But a lot of the claims here, most notably the population percentages, have no supporting citations or research.
If nothing else, the idea that society is stratified on two axes based on income and social values, is kind of brilliant.
Looks like this was purged from his blog along with everything before 2013. Makes me wonder if the author himself moved on from this idea: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
Trying to label everything in concrete terms like this does nobody any favors.
I know plenty of very high earners that are just stupid with money and blow it as fast as they get it. People making $300k+ and living paycheck to paycheck with no savings or retirement because they bought two $100k+ cars, overextended themselves on buying a house, spend hundreds a week on restaurants and shopping, etc.
Are they the “working poor”?
As far as working class goes, sure if you want to break it down into only a two class structure then yeah. You’re either working class or owner class. That ignores a lot of nuance though within the working class. There’s quite a bit of difference between someone at the bottom of the working class and someone like a high earning professional that still needs to work, but has a much higher standard of living.
People who make high incomes from wages/salary are still working class, as they don't own the capital. However the higher the income (relative to necessary living expenses, mind you) the more incentives they have to have interests more aligned with the Capitalist class and can become "class traitors".
But anyhow, 99% of the people who will read this post probably aren't making $300k
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