You're all working class!!! If you rely on your work for your living, you're working class. I get what they mean, but don't forget that.
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interesting how we are all separated by the color of the collar around our necks.
I don’t see that
The yoke around our necks determine our worth.
The article addresses the fact that it's a bad definition, but since it is discussing a study they have to work with the definition the study used.
What if I work in the c suite?
if you're only 2 pay cheques away from homelessness in the c suite I can perform some very cost effective consultancy work for you.
I'm totally working class but I've got a year of float saved up or... Like fifteen days of cancer, so hoping those cells reproduce correctly!
After all there's more than one way to increase your maximum unemployment time... you make more, lower your living expenses, turn to highway robbery....
Owning a taco truck makes you a CEO it doesn't make you a millionaire.
Not just the men, but the women and the children too
Not just the men, but the women and the children too
Women and children have a cornucopia of support options. A veritable endless buffet of them, compared to men.
There is no “not just the men” when it comes to the availability of social support options. There are support options for everyone else, and fuck the men - they can go die in a gutter for all society cares about them.
Must be all the sand.
...and until it's bad enough for massive strikes, it will continue.
The left's job is to make this feeling into "working class men are not okay but now have a functional protest movement seeking to end the wealth gap permanently".
The problem is Trump is funneling this issue/disenfranchisement towards the aims of the wealthy and those who want to increase the wealth gap permanently.
"Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has sufficient policy plans to address the interlocking crises of working-class men. On the one hand, you have Trump, who likes to pander to working men but whose policies disproportionately benefit the rich. Then there’s Harris, who appears to have backed away from the ambitious programs of Bidenomics in favor of nibbling at the edges, touting instead a slew of tax credits for “entrepreneurs.”"
per the article, it's not just Trump.
Yeah, but I don't feel like Kamala is funneling off working class disenfranchisement to other places.
Many of them are voting for Trump because the Democratic Party has abandoned them entirely for decades now. It’s stupid to fall for his lies, but he’s at least bothering to address them as a demographic in need of attention (with lies, of course).
Listening to NPR the other day, there was a piece on how many of the unions aren’t endorsing Harris (either candidate, actually) and that it’s because the working class whites men that make up the unions aren’t ready for a mixed-race female president. Of course jumping right to blaming the voters of bigotry instead of admitting that neither Harris, nor Biden or the party in general, has done anything to earn a union endorsement. If they were just bigots, wouldn’t they be endorsing Trump?
Ironically the Biden administration is considered one of the most Union-friendly government in US presidential history.
But yeah, I agree, there's a missing progressive element that would compensate for that bigotry... If it's a thing (because many unions no doubt include women and people lf color in the proportions they're represented in those industries).
Harris' father was a Marxist professor, so it will be quite the irony if she loses due to not getting enough union support.
I am fully aware of this.