OpEd: Our definitions of “working class” and “middle class” are deeply confused.
say that it is the disparity of income and power at work that ultimately matters, and questions of racial or gender identity have become convenient distractions from this fundamental class divide.
To sum up: In a diverse and technologically advanced capitalist economy, the way people experience class is just really complicated.Despite all the digital ink spilled litigating the tedious question of “class versus race — which is most important?” the answer, obviously, is “both.” Rather than a nasty foreign import that will disappear here when we “rebuild the middle class,” as so many politicians suggest, class inequality is very plainly a force that shapes our lives.
But as with other identities, class is a kind of allegiance based on shared responses to a dominant class. For many of us, that dominant class is personified and experienced differently, with different levels of intensity and danger. For many people in the United States, the dominant class wears a blue uniform; for others, it's something less tangible — the algorithm behind an app at whose mercy they drive and deliver. For others, it’s a boss who sits behind a desk and calls you “honey.
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