Does anyone else get these videos on TikTok where it's like:
working class - £20k
lower middle class - £30k
middle class - £40k
upper middle class - £50k
upper class - £60k
ruling class - £70k
and the comments are so uninformed that they just accept this stratification as a given. Try to explain to people that if you have to work for a living and if you stop working you die then you are working class and it doesn't compute. Nevermind that you can't actually raise a family comfortably with a single income of less than £70k in this country, if you try to explain to people actually yeah we should all be getting paid a hell of a lot more they will look at you like you've just tried to fuck their dog.
In my opinion, if a middle class exists, it is small business owners and doctor couples with a combined income of £400k, and anyone that has started to accumulate rental properties in addition to owning their own home.
Does anyone else get these videos on TikTok where it's like:
and the comments are so uninformed that they just accept this stratification as a given. Try to explain to people that if you have to work for a living and if you stop working you die then you are working class and it doesn't compute. Nevermind that you can't actually raise a family comfortably with a single income of less than £70k in this country, if you try to explain to people actually yeah we should all be getting paid a hell of a lot more they will look at you like you've just tried to fuck their dog.
In my opinion, if a middle class exists, it is small business owners and doctor couples with a combined income of £400k, and anyone that has started to accumulate rental properties in addition to owning their own home.
Yeah the working class is undoubtedly divided along multiple lines, it's just about figuring out what those lines are and how they influence things.
Middle is too loose of a signifier and salary brackets only have a soft correlation with material interests.
Arguably things like retirement investments and home ownership could be materially impactful differences between subsections of the working class.