No hate for the middle class. I can’t help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.
No hate for the middle class. I can’t help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.
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If you don’t need to work, you are not middle class. Middle class still earn a paycheck.
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If you need to work for your salary, you are working class, not the capitalist class.
Some working class people make a lot more than others, but they all pale in comparison to the capitalist class.
$400k per year is very well off. But they’re not rich.
A multi-millionaire is significantly closer to houselessness than they are to being a capitalist class/billionaire.
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I don’t think 400k a year as an individual is middle class. I’ve never seen a definition saying anything more than 150k.
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Middle class absolutely needs to work though. They just aren’t complete wage slaves because they have some personal capital to absorb urgent/unplanned expenses and can survive without working for some time. Ultimately they still need to work to survive though
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Working class isn’t defined by being poor and middle class isn’t defined by not having to live paycheck to paycheck. Middle class in general is pretty much a made up difference to to split the working class.
Working class is very easily defined. If you have to work for a living you’re in the working class. It doesn’t matter if you make 40k, 400k or 4 million as long as it’s coming from your labor. Capitalists don’t have to work, their capital makes them money and they can live off the labor of their workers. If you make 400k regardless of your contribution, then you’re not working class.
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And what work does he do that’s a necessity for his livelyhood?
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And who is paying him to do that?
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So, according to the GOP, less than 12% of the US population is middle class (much less actually, that statistic is apparently for people making more than 200K a year)
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Middle class people are not working poor. Creatives are sometimes working poor, and other times are making $250k as UX designers.
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Probably fall into the working poor category.
But I don’t know anyone making minimum wage doing UX.
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That’s crazy. And definitely not the norm, even outside of big tech.
I’ve been in 4 startups, no one was making that little money even 20 years ago.
Yep, I’ve worked at tech places with bad pay but never “decades of experience and only making a little more than minimum wage”. Especially if they held a Senior title. It’s been a wild ride listening to their story evolve.
How seasoned could they be if they weren’t able to demand a raise or work somewhere else for more as a UX Designer? How could a seasoned professional be so close to entry level, and minimum wage?
Know your worth, companies aren’t just going to hand you money to be nice. Negotiate, and if they don’t play ball, prove you’re as good as you think you are somewhere else.
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Some of us have been working remote since way before Covid.
Skill level doesn’t equal pay level directly, but if you have decades of experience in a technical field like UX Design and are still making close to minimum wage in the USA, that does sound like a skill issue.
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Middle class isn’t real, the closest is petite bourgeoisie, who own Capital but also must work to live.