• esc27@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I worry that she actually is “middle class” and the wealth disparity has moved to the point that those of us who cannot spend $150 on pet insurance or drop $750,000+ on a house or $100,000 on a truck are effectively “poor”, at least as far as the market is concerned.

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      2 months ago

      There’s people with “Fuck you” money and people without “Fuck you” money.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I mean, it should be median income/wealth, then a standard deviation either way.

      But capitalism doesn’t care about people, it cares about money. That’s the only way the “middle class” can be defined differently.

      Don’t let capitalism define words.

      • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        And neither communism nor socialism care about people either, they are just ideas with the inability to care about anything.