Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them

Re:Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them by dogma1138 on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:36AM (#12070578)

Isn't middle class also a working class? I was brought up as middle class, not especially wealthy would even classify it towards the lower end, but highly educated as both parents were academics.

I worked every summer since I was 13, and 16ish to 18 also during the school year now and then (17/18 was fairly lucky early it was really early 2000's and I mastered PHP rather well so made actually decent money building websites when web2.0, CMS and dynamic content were still meaningful buzzwords).

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Re:Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them by junipergreen on Monday July 11, 2016 @09:41AM (#12070957)

In the academic, Marxist sense, yes. But I was using the term "working class" rather as a synonym for minimum wage, blue collar workers, or in this case teenagers whose parents have those jobs. The point really is that middle class kids (like you were) can get jobs (like you did), whereas poor kids often can't.

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Re:Poor Kids Need Summer Jobs. Rich Kids Get Them by true_religion on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:40AM (#12070599)

Well no. The working class is the bottom end of the middle class (historically factory workers, currently teachers and clerking jobs). The upper end of the middle-class are people making 150k+ a year. The middle-end have jobs within the 80k to 100k range.

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