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>If you get paid a salary by working for someone else you are working class A PM for a tech company, most FAANG ICs, a doctor who doesn't have an ownership sta
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>If you get paid a salary by working for someone else you are working class
A PM for a tech company, most FAANG ICs, a doctor who doesn't have an ownership stake in the practice they work for, an enterprise salesman, a wall street trader all work for someone else and NONE of them are working class for the purposes of this discussion.
- kevviiinn 4y agoThey definitely are working class. Splitting up the working class is exactly what capital owners want, it keeps workers pointing fingers at each other instead of paying attention to the ones who are actually exploiting and profiting from their labor
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoAs much as I disagree with Marx your comment and the one I initially replied to fit really well in the context of "the petite bourgeoisie cozying up to the lower class in order to use their muscle to get themselves installed in place of the upper class" concept he wrote about. There are huge social and cultural gulfs between the top, middle and bottom and they each have their own distinct cultures and there is natural conflict that stems from that (I would go so far as to say "most" does). Obviously some people manage to straddle the lines but the gulfs are very much there.
- kevviiinn 4y agoThere may be cultural differences but that doesn't necessarily divide the working class. The capital owning class, however, definitely takes advantage of it to create rifts and move focus away from improving the material conditions of all workers. You can see it in the way that media discusses so many issues, especially in the context of union issues like the recent rail strikes in the UK
- bawolff 4y agoI think its silly to divide people into only 2 classes as if its a binary.
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