Reply #81: it's hard because

[cory817]

I know a lot of plumbers and electricians which by most are considered "working class" but they make way more than many "white collar" jobs. You probably have to separate the job someone does from the amount of money they make, and someone like a professor is more of an underpaid professional. The upper-middle lower middle etc classification works much easier.

The other thing is because we shifted away from manufacturing in this country there are less of the traditional factory worker punch a time-clock working class, and you might have to start including the jobs that replaced them like general office work etc.

And if you're going to classify people who aren't working class as those who control means, then that is such a small group comparatively that there almost isn't a point.

And then there's the problem of people wanting to be considered working class when they're really not, it's kind of a "I walked ten miles in the snow uphill both ways".

I think if you're going to classify people, you either need to not assume all working class have it hard and professional white collars don't, or just classify people by their income (lower-middle upper middle etc.) Better yet let's not classify people.