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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
Sat Mar 9, 2013, 02:20 PM Mar 2013

Here the heart of the problem, to the apparent lack of worker outrage. [View all]

There is no sense of class in the United States. Why we all are middle class, whether you make 20K and are single, or 250K and have a family of four. We all are middle class.

In reality our 20K earning single person is a member of the working class and our 250k earning family of four is a member of the upper middle class, in cheaper markets a member of the wealthy classes. (Taking into account NYC and Los Angeles). But by a feat of propaganda both call themselves middle class..it can't be, it is not...but this is how peope self identify. And of course our 20K earning fictional worker is the next Bill Gates.

Ain't propaganda great?

And until the 20K earning worker stops seeing himself the same as our 250K family of four, who for the record does not, nothing will really change. A sense of class in the classic sense needs to come back.

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Yes! hedgehog Mar 2013 #1
A single person making 20k is actually poor, especially after taxes. duffyduff Mar 2013 #2
But he or she sees himself or herself as middle class nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #4
The lack of class consciousness in the USA IS the reason..... socialist_n_TN Mar 2013 #3
Yup, that history of labor of mine is taking a decidedly "strident" nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #5
Totally agree! - KnR LeftInTX Mar 2013 #6
Income is not the only indicator of class. Brickbat Mar 2013 #7
Exactly, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2013 #8
The Sooners are admired, the Boomers not so much bigbrother05 Mar 2013 #11
Exacrly, Sir: I Know The Derivation The Magistrate Mar 2013 #12
A true hard core classic Marxist POV nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #22
wtf are you talking about 'hard core marxist'? where do you think your "classic class" analysis HiPointDem Mar 2013 #25
Thank you for your post. n/t GiveMeFreedom Mar 2013 #24
"Middle Class" is amorphous SoCalDem Mar 2013 #9
America has been a consumer society since the 1920s, really... YoungDemCA Mar 2013 #15
MC should very well be...not amorphous nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #21
Politics pretty much demands it SoCalDem Mar 2013 #26
Exactly, serving the goal of social control. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #27
The One Percent is deadly afraid of class awareness education and that is why they always scream kairos12 Mar 2013 #10
I've heard that 20K worker called "the illusory middle class." Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2013 #13
Americans have been trained to not see class differences Yavin4 Mar 2013 #14
I'd say $250,000 makes you rich no matter where you live hfojvt Mar 2013 #16
See 17 nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #20
250k puts one in the top 5% of income earners n2doc Mar 2013 #17
This is why the definition of middle class we use nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #19
real estate has gone crazy in some places hfojvt Mar 2013 #23
You really have Nailed It herre. bvar22 Mar 2013 #18
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