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Easy: The proportion of their or their parents' income which comes from labor as opposed to earnings on property.
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
Easy: The proportion of their or their parents' income which comes from labor as opposed to earnings on property.
- happyopossum 4y agoSo an athlete with a $250m contract would be lower class because all of his income is from labor? That’s ridiculous.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoWe probably have very different definitions of class that's causing this confusion. The definition of class I'm using is laid across a spectrum from those who sell their labor on one end to those who make money from the ownership of property on the other. The reason I use this definition is because the economic relations are reflected in social relations. The social relations one has when they primarily live off the earnings of property are qualitatively different from those who don't - this difference forms the basis of class. Know that this isn't an idiosyncratic definition - the cradle it was born in was the same cradle that bore sociology itself.
- klyrs 4y agoMy cousin couldn't afford to go to college because his mom made peanuts and his dad ran off. Couldn't get financial aid because he needed both parents' tax returns. Forcing kids to prove they're poor means rejecting poor kids with absentee parents. Antisocialism is the root of so many of America's problems. Tax wealth, seize inheritance, and don't charge for higher education. Guillotines only work for the people who can afford them.