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The entire concept of "Class" is so distorted here that it means nothing. Class isn't some intersectional data point that you can tease out of a spreadsheet. It's defined by the relationships within a society, and in capitalist society it's defined by those who earn their money by selling their labor for a wage, and those who earn their money through underpaying for that labor. It's defined by the disproportionate control one group (the labor buyers) has over the way the other group (the labor sellers) lives their lives.
His point about "Dems don't see themselves as working class" is literally the challenge of raising "Class Consciousness". These Dems are part of the working class, they are simply not conscious of that fact. If the "Working Class" is always depicted as greasy car mechanics, construction workers, assembly line workers or delivery drivers, then yes, the white-collar office worker putting in 90+ hours a week to crank out the next GTA game only to get fired before its released, will never see themselves as "Working Class" even though they suffer under the same conditions.
People who work in a cube slamming their fingers into a keyboard for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, will look at a guy who works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, at a tow truck company and think, "Well, at least I'm not that poor slob." This dissonance is created by a lack of class consciousness!
Liberals read a book challenge fucking IMPOSSIBLE!!
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Workers in factories lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
Workers doing call center work lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
Workers doing technical support lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
Workers driving taxi cabs are replaced by contractors driving their own cars for Uber.
Workers delivering packages are replaced by contractors driving their own cars for Doordash.
Workers in factories lose their jobs to automated assembly robots.
Workers doing call center work lose their jobs to Large Language Models doing synthesized voices.
Workers doing technical support lose their jobs to Large Language Models doing text communication.
Workers writing technical documents are replaced by Large Language Models.
Workers creating art assets are replaced by Generative Imaging Models.
Workers driving their own cars for Uber will lose their jobs to automated self-driving cars.
Workers driving their own cars for Doordash will lose their jobs to automated self-piloting delivery drones.
Nothing is done to address this assault on workers.
Mother fuckers like this will still wonder if it's the "identity Politics" that is the problem.
"Only paid subscribers can comment on this post" AKA only those who view my opinions as valid can have a conversation with me about my opinions.
The entire concept of "Class" is so distorted here that it means nothing. Class isn't some intersectional data point that you can tease out of a spreadsheet. It's defined by the relationships within a society, and in capitalist society it's defined by those who earn their money by selling their labor for a wage, and those who earn their money through underpaying for that labor. It's defined by the disproportionate control one group (the labor buyers) has over the way the other group (the labor sellers) lives their lives.
His point about "Dems don't see themselves as working class" is literally the challenge of raising "Class Consciousness". These Dems are part of the working class, they are simply not conscious of that fact. If the "Working Class" is always depicted as greasy car mechanics, construction workers, assembly line workers or delivery drivers, then yes, the white-collar office worker putting in 90+ hours a week to crank out the next GTA game only to get fired before its released, will never see themselves as "Working Class" even though they suffer under the same conditions.
People who work in a cube slamming their fingers into a keyboard for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, will look at a guy who works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, at a tow truck company and think, "Well, at least I'm not that poor slob." This dissonance is created by a lack of class consciousness!
Liberals read a book challenge fucking IMPOSSIBLE!!
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