I'm sitting here weighing the idea that you could get rid of a lot of what's toxic about the word "working-class" (as well as misleading, hypocritical, inconsistent, etc.) in ordinary discourse by just committing to saying "poor" instead
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I think things like “food insecure” and “paycheck to paycheck” can be helpful and relatable, but we need pithier retorts to the inevitable “then they should just” and “well when my grandad was that poor...” stuff that’s always the response.
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Breakdowns of how different the economy is now don’t seem to resonate
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