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By income, I'd guess research assistants, teaching assistants, and college assistants are working class. You can declare a PhD candidate's "tuition" is ten mil
by mcny 8y ago
By income, I'd guess research assistants, teaching assistants, and college assistants are working class.
You can declare a PhD candidate's "tuition" is ten million dollars a year and then "pay" the worker $10M in tuition credits + $20k living expenses but we all know the actual pay is $20k a year.
- Symbiote 8y agoBut by aspiration, these people are middle class. A teenager carrying a golf bag might still be upper class, if they're doing it because their father owns the golf course and sees it as a networking opportunity.
- mantas 8y ago... and I'm the 1% upper class by aspiration :) Teenager is an extension of his family till he's making a living on it's own. If he manages to extend his family wealth then yes, he's upper class. But if he manages only to drink away his opportunities and his parents stop giving him money... He's not so upper class, eh?
- mattkrause 8y agoThis is why actual social scientists talk about socioeconomic status instead of purely income-based categories (etc). Grad students usually have fairly little money, but a fair amount of social capital: people think they are smart, industrious, etc. It’s sort of like middle-class apprentice. A factory foreman or hairdresser might earn more, but their job has less cachet.