[ilostmyshoes]

We are all workers, we are the working class whether we are educated or not.

The capital owners want the working class to fight amongst themselves because it allows them to continue enriching themselves off the backs of the working class.

Even if you own some stocks or have a 401k, if you depend on a salary to pay your bills then you are a worker

[skee8383]

Actually there are different levels of working class. A guy earning $18k per year working in retail isn't exactly in the same boat as the manager of the store making $80k a year.

[ilostmyshoes]

That was a story made up by capital owners to keep the working class fighting amongst itself. The reality is that anyone who works for a wage is being taken advantage of

[iso1631]

It annoys me in the UK how people claim that "Tommy who 'does up houses' and flips them or rents them out" is a "working class builder", where as Billy isn't working class because he types on a keyboard.

In the UK working people, especially those earning above minimum wage, are taxed far more than the capitalists of the world like Tommy who can structure his income to pay just 30% marginal taxes rather than 60% plus.

[ilostmyshoes]

Honestly it's the same in the US. But unfortunately the ones who fund the political campaigns are usually the ones with the lower tax rate, so that doesn't change.