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Re:The Two Middle Classes by kortilla on Saturday February 29, 2020 @07:33PM (#22454260)
This distinction is pointless for the people it purports to classify. An HVAC engineer working for a university is no different than an HVAC engineer working for a market driven company. Pretending that they are in two different middle classes is bullshit.

This article is a big struggle to fit people into bad classifications and suffers readability (and a point in general) because of it. An article grouping middle class members based on toilet paper orientation would be more interesting.

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Re:The Two Middle Classes by AnimalMuppet on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:14PM (#22454430)
> An HVAC engineer working for a university is no different than an HVAC engineer working for a market driven company.

Mostly true, but not completely. The private company has to serve customers at least as well as the competition; the university's outfit has to do not too much worse than what they could get from an outside supplier.

Compare the university administrator to the HVAC company manager, and the difference widens. Compare the university president to the HVAC company owner, and it widens a lot further.

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Re:The Two Middle Classes by Waterluvian on Saturday February 29, 2020 @07:59PM (#22454372)
The only correct orientation for toilet paper is to keep it off the holder. Then you can hold the roll and "dual spool" to accumulate a nice fibrous lather with haste.
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