• Ferrous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Good luck trying to explain to working-class people that the struggle they’re feeling is only because they don’t understand economics well enough.

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      8 months ago

      Good luck trying to explain to tech-savvy upper-income Lemmy users that average income adjusted for inflation, at the bottom end of the scale, has actually been rising faster than the grocery prices, and that that’s a good thing.

      I’ve been trying for a couple of days now with apparently no success.

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      8 months ago

      All these tech bros on Lemmy making over 6 figures calling themselves “working class” is really funny

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        8 months ago

        Working class doesn’t mean poor, it means you don’t own business assets and generally that you don’t profit off the labour of others. It’s a convenient method of control to keep working class people so divided that the fight remains amongst ourselves instead of it being focused on improving things for everyone.

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          8 months ago

          Working class doesn’t mean poor,

          No, but a lot of upper middle class people are sure happy to exploit the connotation of poverty from the phrase.

          People making $30k/yr and people making $300k/yr have nothing in common except they both hate they people making $1m/yr. They don’t belong to the same class. They just have a mutual enemy.