“I sell my time and skills for money”
“I am not working class”
What they mean is “I don’t understand jack about shit and like being exploited if it means I can smugly act like I’m better than construction workers.”
Class isn’t just money/income!!!
Exactly, it’s about ownership of the means of production
This is what happens when your understanding of an explicitly defined word comes from vibe instead of education.
I don’t understand why this person is ashamed to be working-class
Because they think it just means being poor, and being poor is obviously a moral failing. Capitalism is a meritocracy after all, only reason some don’t succeed is because they don’t deserve to. Not like this dude. He has soft hands like a rich person. He’s high class. You wouldn’t get it.
Can’t be sure where the twitter OP post is located, but his words are right in line with the type of anti-worker “we’re all middle class” propaganda that most U.S. americans are fed constantly. Doubly so when it comes to liberals, who think working-class is equivalent to conservative values.
working-class is equivalent to conservative values
??? Is this actually a common opinion among Amerikan liberals?
I’m not sure if they are consciously aware of it, but it is absolutely in the day-to-day rhetoric in a sort of micro-aggression format. If most U.S. liberals hear ‘working class’ they tend to associate it with hard labor work like the OP twitter post (and the implied association with hard labor work is that they are likely uneducated and conservatives therefore).
To give some more context: People who grow up in the states are not socialized with the real meaning of class words but hear them thrown around often in mixed contexts. So they develop these odd associations mostly from the political class and some outspoken family members (we all have one or two right?).
It was a huge success of propaganda when the U.S. politicians stopped referring to a “working class” and started saying “middle class” instead. Now most people who aren’t rich or homeless think that they are in the middle class (thankfully some of the younger generations are starting to see through it!). Then when the politicians go to demonize the poor, you have the poor themselves (who don’t think they are the poor ones) going against their own best interests. You can find videos of people in the states living in the worst conditions but are still technically housed and will tell you that they are “middle class” with a straight face. There was a short doc I had seen on YT about it but I didn’t find it yet.
Source: was raised in the states and had to deprogram/reprogram a lot of these wrong-as-fuck definitions and associations. Now on the outside it’s even more obvious.
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Was it this video? Not really a documentary, though
It wasn’t this video. It was mostly footage and interviews taken in the “deep south” of the U.S.
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Wtf
Marx explicitly said that non production workers are workers too. And he did not even had to, it’s obvious.
However, manual labour reductionism (and/or strictly productive labour) is a problem that arise every now and then in worker movements. Needless to say, it should not be tailed by communists.
Brb gonna dip by hands in bleach to become working class
If you wear gloves or use moisturizer you are bourgeoisie I guess
I have eczema so if I don’t pamper my hands I have painful breakouts that leave my hands useless. Thank god I’m not a peasant like the rest of you. How I made my first million dollars? Topical hydrocortisone and clobetasol 😎
“I get to decide the one true meaning of every word”’ this person must be insufferable on a daily basis
I really want people to guess what kind of job I have, because I’m curious how I come off, but I also don’t want to doxx myself. Hmmm…
Dog hoverboard meta behavioral analysis
Me? I’m an ideas guy.
That was my major. Unfortunately the market for that is really small/competitive so I got into artisinal gravedigging.
(FR tho all my work socks simultaneously fell apart this week. 😭)
Comrade your…your heels are showing 😦
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Something related to geography
Your comment history has a ton of big words so probs educated in some field where big words are often used. However, you use a lot of slang and casual grammar so probs nothing too writing/literature heavy. You also posted a lot of maps and statistics of how many people are x, y, z per 1k/10k/100k etc.
Incorrect. But nice try. Not enough steel toes in that industry.
Geology or petroleum engineering. Oil industry maybe.
I sticking to my assumption that your education/job has something to do with maps/people in the context of geography lol
Lol I had a family member tell me the only way to make money is via manual labor
