• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    Class is your relationship to the means of production not how much money you make. The labor aristocracy is still working class despite having better material conditions.

    This understanding of class was designed by the owning class to divide the workers into who is better than who so that they won’t realize they have the same interests and organize against the bourgeoisie

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      100%, the owning class is the wealth/capital class. Everyone else is working class. If you need to work to continue to have basic needs met like housing, food, healthcare, education, etc you are working class.

      Also disrubtion -> disruption in the first experiences box.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    This needs to be in ratios VS cost of living values.

    NY/LA VS Hayes Kansas, $100k is a very different thing.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I feel like the huge range in the upper class (106k to 461k) is too large to lump everyone into a single group. A person who earns 115k a year has a completely different lifestyle than someone who earns 250k a year. Whereas the top and bottom incomes of the middle to lower classes are likely comparable in terms of life experience.

  • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    This is misleading at best. If you subtract the largest 1000 earners in America the median income drops to $35,000.

    That’s all you need to know.

  • DrunkenPirate@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I love that fifth pillar „Owning Class.“ It’s often not mentioned in such overviews but reveals most of the power structures im out world.

    Would be interesting to have an additional row of „Life Happiness“ Being super-rich doesn’t mean being super-happy in your life.