I know we have our Marxist definition and all that, but it seems to be a really pervasive 
, everywhere I go. Some people I’ve talked to think for instance, all scientists are silver spooned and never worked a day in their life because they don’t do construction, or whatever.
How do you argue with people like this? Can you?
The easiest way, especially if who you’re talking to is in a licensed trade, is to bring up pay. Electricians even at the journeyman level make more than the vast majority of scientists will ever make – union or not. Next bring up student loan payments and how that further reduces the salary of scientists.
Once you break the idea that the hated “class” is doing it for money or that they came from money, you can start to broach how they make money, and that usually makes it click that they’re just workers.
This approach is harder to do with extremely highly paid professions like doctors, but usually bring up the number of hours and the amount of stress related death can help that.