2026-10-19 23:41 UTC
The middle class has been shrinking my entire adult life. The gap between people who start with nothing and work their way up and the people who start with a massive boost and accelerate in wealth accumulation faster than the bootstrappers ever could has grown by an astounding multiple in the past 50 years.
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@Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-20 00:08
you’re right, but “Business owners are (generally) not your allies in the class war, no matter how small or large their business is.” is a mentality from 120 years ago. the difference between then and now is enough to require radical change to that quote. back then, the middle class was opposed to the proletariat. now, you are the middle class and you agree with uniting with the proletariat to oppose the hyperbourgeois. if you are not blue-collar nor an “unskilled” laborer, you are middle-class.