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>Why would high performing employees with office jobs be "lower class"? As others mentioned once you hit a certain income threshold and job security, then you c
by alphonsegaston 10y ago
>Why would high performing employees with office jobs be "lower class"? As others mentioned once you hit a certain income threshold and job security, then you can start prioritizing the parts of the job you enjoy. This is who the article is talking about.
Because they're foolish enough to believe that themselves in solidarity with the oligarch class, when really they're only temporarily useful to them.
If you think "high-performers" are part of the elite or are going to escape from this neo-feudalism unscathed, well, enjoy this sermon.
- gozur88 10y ago>Because they're foolish enough to believe that themselves in solidarity with the oligarch class, when really they're only temporarily useful to them. Not everyone takes the Marxist view of society in which we're perpetually locked in a class struggle, with enemy classes and those with which we're "in solidarity".
- psyc 10y agoI don't think it makes any sense to call that a 'view' - other than the trite philosophical sense in which everybody's worldview is their own. Not sure what part of Marx's analysis of class struggle would actually depend on personal opinion in any meaningful way.
- gozur88 10y agoBecause it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?
- psyc 10y agoAbsolutely. Every single day of my 40 years (no doubt this experience is strongly connected to having been raised in poverty). Not confrontationally, face-to-face, or with violence. That's the whole point.
- alphonsegaston 10y agoIf your argument is that the world doesn't conform to any kind of Hegelianism, Marxist or otherwise, I guess I'd agree with you. But if it's that there are no such thing as classes of rich and poor people, or that the former has not persecuted and exploited the latter for its own gains, now and in the past, that seems to fundamentally misunderstand history and human behavior.
- rublev 10y ago>Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes? Do you feel okay in the head?
- gozur88 10y agoAbsolutely. I don't carry the same burden of paranoia that other people seem to have. You?
- astrange 10y agoYes, anyone who lives in SFBA is very obviously struggling against those that came before and built single-family housing on all the land.