Frontline managers can still be working class. It's middle-management up that starts to be removed from the pressures of dealing with an unbearable customer base
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Yeah. I think the simplest analysis is something like "can you work in this field if you left your employer and hung out your own shingle" combined with at least a cursory look at income.
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But overall, for the vast majority of real political and economic questions in the 21st century, the ONLY relevant thing is income.
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Very few of the Trump supporters they interview in diners are actually "working class" by any analysis that even tries to follow the actual definition of "working class" They're all petit bourgeoisie of one kind or another
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Farmers (as in people who actually own farms) are not working-class Contractors (as in people who take the contract and then hire laborers to complete it) are not working-class "Small businessmen" are not working-class They are all exploiting other people's labor
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“Working-Class” needs to mean more than “how performatively dirty they make you look in Ford commercials”
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