But I guess this is part of my point: what is class? Does someone become middle class if they are like my mom, work their way through school at a union railway job and get a degree over 10 years, then survive being a single mom and finally become a professor making money?
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Or do they forever retain their working class-ness? Similarly, do I become blue collar because I work a blue collar job even though I have a PhD but washed out of most jobs that could use it? (Class first folks would def say no on that one)
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Is class - how much money you make now? - how much money your parents made when you were growing up? - the level of education you completed? - how much authority you hold at your job? - what cultural artifacts you respect? It seems like people believe several of these at once
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Class is whether you make most of your money by selling your labour or by renting property you own
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What if you do neither?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman and
Alternately, what if you're an old lady on social security who rents out your basement to get the bare minimum?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman and
Or how about an actor who gets paid for their labor, a lot, and has poor spending habits? If I get paid six million dollars for a film role and blow it on non-durable goods, am I "working class"? (I guess I'm okay with "yes" here but I don't think the irony left thinks so)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman and
They totally think podcasters who make a million dollars a year are "working class"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Which actually raises another huge issue in Marxist analysis. Performing for other people’s entertainment is labour, but charging people to view recordings of said performances is rent-seeking. So what is recording performances in order to charge?
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
No yeah it's a whole complicated tangle of ideas It's pretty obvious there are multiple forms of "capital", if you want to frame it through that lens, and that "social capital" is very much a form of capital that is very difficult to directly measure
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Movie stars obviously get paid a huge premium based on how famous they are, over and above what you can call the "labor cost" of acting (which SAG-AFTRA defines as "union scale", isn't very much, and most working actors don't even get that)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Isn't that similar to the "$10000 for knowing which screw" joke?
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