• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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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.