[blind-democracy] Re: what is the working class?

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:01:09 -0400

I don't see how it is of much use at all to describe people in terms of upper, middle and lower income. That says nothing about their role in the economy or their place in the dynamics of society. It would be similar to attending medical school and only learning that the human body consists of two parts, meat and bones.


On 8/26/2016 10:13 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:

I find it most useful in 2016 America, when trying to describe people in
economic terms, to talk about low income, middle income, etc. Class, seems
to me, to be a word that encompasses much more than income and can be
misleading.  But, unfortunately, the phrase will not disappear from this
list because it is tied to an intellectual framework to which people are
loyal. It's like asking people to stop referring to God, because they mean
such different things by the same word.

Miriam


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Subject: [blind-democracy] what is the working class?


the subject line says it.as I read all these messages about the working
class, I begin to suspect everyone has his/her own definition of it, and
that, of course determines all the rest.
And, it also often seems that the definitions shift and drift depending on
the particular point being made at any given time.
Thoughts?




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