Re:Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats
by kube-system on Saturday June 05, 2021 @02:07AM
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“Working class”, despite what those words can mean separately, doesn’t mean “class of people with a job”.
It is a polite rephrasing of the now antiquated phrase: “lower class”.
In fact, the “working class” aren’t necessarily even employed.
Almost everyone in America is "working class". America no longer has a leisure class to speak of, if we ever had one. Looking at the most recent data - I forget where I saw it - but the wealthiest Americans also put in the most hours at work.
I know a lot of people have brainwashed themselves into thinking they're something they're not, but they're all wrong. If you have to go to work in the morning to maintain your lifestyle, even if you "work" for yourself, you're just a working class stiff like everyone else, you can just afford bigger shit.
If you can decide to just stop what you're doing and go attain spiritual enlightenment for the next 18 months, and literally nothing about your life, your children's lives, your grandchildren's lives, and your great-grandchildren's lives will change - you're not working class.
> Sure, it’s elitist, but people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum.
That doesn't make someone elitist, it just makes them an asshole.