Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

I feel like I need to write a column carefully explaining that just because someone drives a truck and wears camo doesn’t make them the “working class.”

Yep. Yet another example of the way late-stage capitalism has rotted our brains. We no longer define people based on who they are or what they do, but on the things they buy and how they market themselves

Interesting. That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with free markets. It sounds much more like different forms of class warfare that occurs under theories like Marxism.

I'd love to hear more about how a culture that judges people based on the things they buy rather than, say, their beliefs, actions, or actual economic class is marxist, if you have the time and inclination

Well, I think the things they buy is representative of economic class. That's exactly one of the distinctions that Marx makes. Markets do not have anything to do with how people divide themselves. I think that's simply a false distinction.