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minus-squareAppleTea@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agounless you make money by owning things, you’re still the same class that you were when you were flipping burgers
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoSo my original comment that was apparently “classist” was actually self deprecation.
minus-squareAppleTea@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI mean, yeah. You have more in common with burger-flippers doing wrong-think than you do with people who own things for a living. “Middle Class” is ultimately a meaningless term that obscures that reality.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s… not entirely true. Although, I’m not about to start making assertions about my financial circumstances in a silly point scoring exercise.
unless you make money by owning things, you’re still the same class that you were when you were flipping burgers
So my original comment that was apparently “classist” was actually self deprecation.
I mean, yeah. You have more in common with burger-flippers doing wrong-think than you do with people who own things for a living. “Middle Class” is ultimately a meaningless term that obscures that reality.
That’s… not entirely true.
Although, I’m not about to start making assertions about my financial circumstances in a silly point scoring exercise.