Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
If most of your income comes from selling your labor, you’re working class.
If most of your income comes from owning things, you’re owning class.
That’s it. It’s that simple. And yes, that means that in some cases, some working class people are actually wealthier than some owning class people. A movie star or star athlete or even a specialized surgeon might have more money than a small-time landlord, but they work for their money, while the landlord gets money simply from owning a few properties. The former is working class, the latter is owning class.
And no, there’s no such thing as ‘middle class’. That’s a lie made up to pacify people. The only other class is the underclass – people who have little or no income at all. Prisoners, the homeless, the institutionalized, etc.
Absolutely.
If most of your income comes from selling your labor, you’re working class.
If most of your income comes from owning things, you’re owning class.
That’s it. It’s that simple. And yes, that means that in some cases, some working class people are actually wealthier than some owning class people. A movie star or star athlete or even a specialized surgeon might have more money than a small-time landlord, but they work for their money, while the landlord gets money simply from owning a few properties. The former is working class, the latter is owning class.
And no, there’s no such thing as ‘middle class’. That’s a lie made up to pacify people. The only other class is the underclass – people who have little or no income at all. Prisoners, the homeless, the institutionalized, etc.