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Thank you for responding to my curiosity with discussion, not mockery. This makes sense to me. Owning things at all makes you middle class, and not destitute.
by skyyler 3y ago
Thank you for responding to my curiosity with discussion, not mockery.
This makes sense to me. Owning things at all makes you middle class, and not destitute. Why is this distinction important?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why is this distinction important? The safety buffer it provides lets you take more risk, personally, civically and societally. That lets you access rewards someone fighting for sustenance can’t countenance. Consider the years we, as a society, spend educating our youth when they could be working a field to produce food. It also means leverage. If a harvest failed, the poor in the army got fed. The others didn’t. The middle class, on the other hand, wasn’t forced into that choice simply to survive. (We use the term “survive” nowadays to mean maintain some arbitrary quality of life, but I’m speaking literally.)
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