This has been on my mind for some time. Coming from a lower middle-class background in the midwest, and currently working for low wages, I use HN comments to ge

This has been on my mind for some time. Coming from a lower middle-class background in the midwest, and currently working for low wages, I use HN comments to get a feel for how 'the other side' thinks. It's surreal to how alien a lot of the perspectives on HN are, even though many people here come from a similar background to mine.