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you are deeply out of touch with how most americans live

• aaomidi 3y ago
  Working class is defined as needing to work to live. Even people making 400K are still working class. Now between the working class, there’s a lot of difference too. The thing is, that difference is on an entirely different scale than the difference between the working class and the owner class.
  • tedivm 3y ago
    The 400k is a red herring anyways. Not every engineer makes that, and not ever person who laid off was an engineer. The layoffs affected recruiters, marketing, sales, and a ton of areas that were not engineers. Lower level engineers were also targeted more than the higher level engineers, and even more importantly the hiring freezes and reductions blocked a ton of new grads from getting jobs.
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  • Izkata 3y ago
    There's a few definitions for it, the one I think most people default to is jobs that require physical labor.
    • aaomidi 3y ago
      Are teachers not working class then? How about secretaries? That’s a silly distinction for what “working class” is.
      • Izkata 3y ago
        Secretaries would fall under professional class, people who work at a desk. Not sure where teachers would be, probably something similar.