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Optiskeptic's avatar

A fascinating argument, but as the comments show 'classism' is deeply ingrained. To me the distinction is how long can you survive when your entitled source of income (salary, wages, benefits, pensions which you have earned by and through your labour) ceases to be paid. The rentier class owns assets and while they sweat these assets they receive income for which they do not have to labour. In my childhood 'middle class people' had trust funds, investments, pots of money etc and they could draw on these assets to fund luxuries/private school fees/ski holidays etc while still labouring for an income. While the idle rentier class remain, it seems to me that the slush funds for 'middle class people' are diminishing, making more and more of them fully dependent on their labour - ie, working class....

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David Hunter's avatar

Brilliantly written... and true. What we need is "solutions" based journalism that will liberate the maker class by seizing the profits from the taker class. Voting does not work. The ruling class will never let you vote away their power. "Peaceful" protesting is a weapon used by the oligarchy to suppress the masses. Power never concedes without retaliation.

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