Yes, I was a little befuddled by that too. According to that arbitrary line
drawn in the sand pretty much every school teacher, plumber, CPA, gas station
attendant, tool booth attendant, short order cook, etc would not be part of the
working class. It really doesn't make sense to me. But, to each his own and
like I said before I think all of us have our own personal definition.
Frank
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so if you're working class, you're not permitted to earn a good living?
. And Bob's arbitrary income and/or educational measuring standards seem
completely irrelevant. I really doubt anyone has investments that they live
from that give them such a modest return. There wouldn't be such a problem with
that...but when those returns for no labor at all are millions and millions,
it's an entirely different matter.
and Carl added the requirement that the working class person must be working to
support the ruling class.
Many people seem to require a certain degree of suffering and hardship to
qualify for the working class.
Roger quotes a definition that the labor must be directly applied to nature.
So it seems to me that everyone has their own personal spin on it, and, it also
seems to me that many spins include a certain amount of exclusion of others and
inclusion of the self based at least in part on those spins
On Aug 27, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Bob Hachey
<bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all,
No doubt, trying to define what is the working class is not going to be
easy. One could argue that it means earning less than a certain income,
let's say $40,000.00. The flaw there is that one could be earning such
income from investments and not working at all. Also, picking a number for
the income is problematic at best.
Others might say that it means doing some sort of physical labor. But some
folks like plumbers and electricians earn a pretty good living doing
physical labor.
Still others might argue that it is based on one's education level. But we
all know folks who are relatively well educated who don't make much money
and we know other less educated types who earn more money. By the way, I
hesitate to use the word earn because it implies that all who get money
deserve what they get and that is certainly not true in these days of
injustice and tremendous income inequality.
Perhaps the best way to look at this is to take the approach that former
SCOTUS justice Potter took in trying to define what is obscenity. He said
that he couldn't define it specifically but that he knew what it was when he
saw it.
Bob Hachey
