Actually they're materially better off and don't have to worry as much about things like food, education, paying bills, etc.
A "middle class" person is just a working class person who the upper class have somehow convinced to look down on working class people.
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Although classism is still real. Maybe even worse in the middle class because they're just wealthy enough to convince themselves that they're "doing it right"
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He did predict it. He calls them the petit bourgeoisie
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Middle class is just low class people with credit cards.
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Not ALL middle class wrkrs R convinced of that BS. Sum of us rejected that immediately. I did as an IBM emp &
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Somehow I feel that something has been lost here. Middling people may have reasons to preserve existing hierarchies in their own genuine self-interest.
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The "somehow" part isn't difficult. People are eager to elevate themselves by seeing others as beneath them. It's easier
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Perhaps healthcare and property ownership privileges in exchange for complicity can be very convincing The more things superficially change.. the more they stay the same
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