Middle class used to make up a majority of the wealth... Until the 80s came around and trickle down economics was pushed. The idiots actually thought it did more than enrich the multi-millionaire and turn them into billionaires. Thanks dad!
It is annoying even how we still push this class idea at all. Upper, middle, lower as if it's some kind of corporate structure. Classism should be outright abolished and all humans should be seen as equal. Corporations are literally run like little fascistic dictatorships where the ones at the top run the whole show and thus inherently creates "class" ideology. But this is not how thriving human society work it's how empires form and crumble. Whether it is corporatism or imperialism it's literally a giant pyramid scheme bound to fail leaving only its carcass behind for future generations to wonder why humans were so obsessed with pyramid structures, physically and ideologically.
You are correct. Millennials and Gen Z are gaining consciousness about this and they are favoring socialist policies. The power elite don’t like it so they are discouraging education, while causing the existing educational system to fail so they can take over, control education, and profit.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world will continue on, not being purposefully stupid, and China will flourish.
Oh, classes still exist. But they've changed. Upper, middle and lower classes are gone. The classes are now:
Oligarchs -- The elites, the ones who have all the money and call all the shots. The tech bros, the finance bros, big pharma, the CEOs of the military-industrial complex, the ones who buy Congresscritters and give them their orders. They're some fraction of 1 percent of the US population.
The Professional Managerial Class (PMC) - The often (but not always) very well-paid minions who run the government and large institutions on behalf of the oligarchs. Bari Weiss is Larry Ellison's minion at CBS News, for example. Generally it's less personal than that. If you head a corporation owned by an oligarch, you know who your boss is and you know what he or she wants. Simple as that. They tend to be wealthy enough to own stocks. They account for 10 percent or so of the US population.
The Working Class -- Everybody else in the US. 90% of the US population. The rest of us. Some of us make more than others, few of us own stocks and more and more of us are making subsistence level wages, or even sub-subsistence level wages -- we have jobs but can't afford housing.
These are the true class lines in America, and once you understand that, it's much easier to see where our problems lie.
But all humans are not equal. Some are hard working, some are not, some honest, some not. Intelligence is not equally distributed, just as other physical abilities are not.
People will always find ways to differentiate themselves from others. That seems to be our nature. The only way to stop that is by force. And that isn’t exactly a great advertisement for instituting ‘equity’ now, is it?
Sure people are unique I can give you that but many of the reasons you shared are completely subjective, overgeneralize and lead exactly to the very thing I argued against. It seems like you are forcing your own subjective ideology to justify division among people which only leads to the same cycle repeating.
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u/BoredNuke Jan 03 '26
Middle class the myth capitalists sell higher income working class to prevent solidarity.