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Agreed. If you have to work for a living, you’re part of the same class as everyone else - and just as capable of intelligence, empathy, and accomplishment. Met
by stego-tech 1y ago
Agreed. If you have to work for a living, you’re part of the same class as everyone else - and just as capable of intelligence, empathy, and accomplishment. Metaphorical collar colors are irrelevant.
- eszed 1y agoThank you for pointing this out! I think we'd get along well, because one of my hobby horses - in real life, and occasionally on this site - is exactly that: if you're dependent on a paycheck, no matter its size, you're Working Class. Many people with large paychecks resist this conclusion - which goes directly back to our point about raising the social status of blue collar (or any other classically "working class") labor. Sidenote, re "just as capable of... empathy": one of the more interesting things I've recently learned from raising a small human is the extent to which empathy must be taught. It's changed my view of the world a bit, because it's clear how many people haven't been, and so (now, as adults) genuinely aren't capable of it.