I've seen lefty podcast types argue that retail workers aren't the *real* working class because those aren't the *real* jobs that keep the country running, they're "divorced from the country's productive base" Using a lot of big words to circle back around to Fox News ideologyhttps://twitter.com/tonyhell/status/1324806952300367872 …
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*Any* analysis that looks at someone whose income is less than 10% someone else's income and says the poorer person is "less working-class" than the richer one because their job isn't a "real job" has lost the plot
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This is an original sin of Marxism, with Marx allowing the concept of the "lumpenproletariat", a materialist gloss on the Christian idea of "undeserving poor" Poor people whom the revolution may someday help but who can't be part of it because they don't have "real jobs"
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Yeah... Like, if there's anything to it, it's probably best focused on doctors and lawyers, primarily, and maybe accountants, who may or may not be independent, in partnerships, or employees, but who don't really fit in capital or labor.
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As an attorney who is also an employee, it's not really clear if I am selling my labor, or if it's clearer to say that professional credentials are themselves capital.
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