Right, its interesting because a class (by this definition) is an affectation. Its a brand identity, it is a level of access that you can aspire to (or lose.)
Right, middle class is a nebulous idea that doesn’t really have much meaning behind it. I agree that class membership derives its meaning from the relations in society. If majority of the income comes from the capital the individual owns then they’re a member of the capitalist class, and if majority of their income comes from their labour then they’re a member of the working class. These two classes have contradictory interests since capital owners act as employers of the workers.
Wtf is this “middle class” anyway? How do you define it? And where is the line?
The classes I learned from my schools and university is simpler: If you work, you are the worker. If you exploit the worker, you are a capitalist.
We never learned about classes in school. My son was taught explicitly that the US was not a class society. Class is a vibe.
Shorthand for middle class is whether someone owns or could “own” a house
What two red scares and a cold war does to a curriculum.
We never learned about classes either. We did learn about consumer segments, what papers they read and what brands of cigarettes they smoked.
Right, its interesting because a class (by this definition) is an affectation. Its a brand identity, it is a level of access that you can aspire to (or lose.)
Right, middle class is a nebulous idea that doesn’t really have much meaning behind it. I agree that class membership derives its meaning from the relations in society. If majority of the income comes from the capital the individual owns then they’re a member of the capitalist class, and if majority of their income comes from their labour then they’re a member of the working class. These two classes have contradictory interests since capital owners act as employers of the workers.
“earners from between the 20th and 80th percentile”