Agreed. There is a truly bizarre tendency for people to try to reinvent class based on income, realize it doesn't work very well, add some sort of interest or s

Agreed. There is a truly bizarre tendency for people to try to reinvent class based on income, realize it doesn't work very well, add some sort of interest or social dimension to it, and slowly reinvent the classical concept of class with the labels shuffled around. We've already had good class labels, working class, labor aristocracy, middle class, struggling capitalist class (small business owners ie petite bourgeoisie), and major capitalist. I think it should be some kind of law of the internet. Any discussion of socioeconomic topics ends up reinventing the classic class system on a long enough time scale.