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[โ€“] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don't even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.

Indeed, it's only a categorisation, though I'm certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you're working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.

You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what's actually an arbitrary definition, don't forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.

I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that's not my intention at all.

It all depends on the definition of class, and it is such an arbitrary one. What I meant was that if your definition is arbitrary enough, it tends to include a lot of false positives. There are a number of rich people who have said that they should be taxed more and have not shown any indication of contradicting themselves, for example.