Aren't we all Working Class? What's with the Middle Class claim?

Question

If you wake up like me on a daily basis and go to work, you are working class.

Middle class is a misnomer. Just makes people feel better about themselves. Right?

Answer 1

There is a large class of Americans, like George W. Bush, and soon Bill Gate's children, who have never had to work a day in their life, who have never know need, hunger or real money insecurities, etc., who were born into money and who do everything they can to protect and shield that privilege and increase their advantages of the rest of us.

This is what is meant as the Upper Class.

I'm not knocking it, per se, because I wish I were in that class money-wise. I'm just fairly answering your question.

Answer 2

Middle class is an old fashioned state of mind, you get a better job, buy a detached house, start holidaying on the Algarve etc.., I really don't think it applies today and I would say it is more of a classless society, the class thing or class barrier is less visible today than it was say 20-30 years ago, if we are talking about Britain that is, I can't see Americans going in for that sort of thing anyway, for a start off anyone who uses a knife and fork with all the finesse of a chimpanzee can hardly put themselves in a higher class

If anyone is silly enough to tell you that they consider themselves "middle class" don't get angry about it, just laugh and point at them until they realize what a ridiculous statement they have just made.

Answer 3

I think that middle class has more to do with income then working or non working status. I think you miss the point about it. The rich of course do no work, others work for them and they achieve huge amounts of money. For nothing really, just knowing whose hands to shake, which babes to kiss. That sort of thing. The middle class work for these. The middle class, the strength of America do get up and go to work every day, very few of these get ahead in life and tend to remain in this classification all their life. Then there are the poor, they work at Taco Bell and Wendy's ect. They are the ones that serve the middle class. The middle class serve the rich. The poor stay poor forever. The struggle to live, food, shelter and health care is almost overwhelming. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Wrong. Some of us who "work" and are, in YOUR eyes, "working class," don't feel that we are exploited by rich people. That is what makes us "middle class." We aren't helpless, we don't need the help of the government, we don't believe in making umpteen million laws to control how businesses are run. Middle class is a mindset, not just an economic status.

Answer 5

Middle class implies they own their own home, have decent jobs, decent cars, some money for their kids when they go to college, etc etc. Lower class implies they rent or live with people and make near minimum wage.

Answer 6

Working class, I thought, is almost like 'lower class', It means you have to toil in the feilds while the elite sip tea and watch you sweat.

Answer 7

Working class and middle class are two in the same.
It has to do with your income.

If you make $30,000 to $80,000 you are the working-middle class.

Answer 8

Britney Spears is NOT a middle class worker.

Answer 9

It's just so they have someone to look down on.
The rich look down on everybody, the middle class (white-collar workers) look down on the working class, and the working class (blue collar workers) look down on the homeless and people on welfare.

Answer 10

It's really more of a reference to the lines that separate the social classes, based upon earnings.