If you need to work to exist, you are working class. Owners make passive income with the wealth they already have. If getting fired from your job puts your basic necessities at risk, you are working class.
And relying on your parents to bail you out does not make you owner class.
I don’t disagree with you. These seem like entirely reasonable definitions. Yet… I still kind of question their utility. It’s just semantics and the delineation of classes depends entirely on the conversation you’re having.
Want to complain about capitalism? Sure… working class vs owning class, or 1%, or whatever you want.
For more or less any other conversation we don’t use terms like “lower class” or “middle class” but we divide cohorts into segments in order to make them easier to read about. It’s not a sinister plot by capitalists to confuse the plebs, it’s just practical.
If you need to work to exist, you are working class. Owners make passive income with the wealth they already have. If getting fired from your job puts your basic necessities at risk, you are working class.
And relying on your parents to bail you out does not make you owner class.
I don’t disagree with you. These seem like entirely reasonable definitions. Yet… I still kind of question their utility. It’s just semantics and the delineation of classes depends entirely on the conversation you’re having.
Want to complain about capitalism? Sure… working class vs owning class, or 1%, or whatever you want.
For more or less any other conversation we don’t use terms like “lower class” or “middle class” but we divide cohorts into segments in order to make them easier to read about. It’s not a sinister plot by capitalists to confuse the plebs, it’s just practical.
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