• n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOP
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      7 months ago

      “Biden’s actual net worth is about $10 million, according to Forbes, which referred to him as “Middle-Class Joe” (though, in fairness, there’s nothing “middle class” about being worth $10 million).”

      One of the things that struck me when I was studying political science in university was that “everyone considers themselves middle class” my professor exemplified this by saying he made $70,000 a year and considers himself middle-class while his brother-in-law made $700,000 a year and called himself middle class, and I knew my parents made $20,000 and considered themselves middle class. So it makes sense why every politician is always “worried” about the middle-class.

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        Since then I’ve come to believe like Big Bill Haywood and the Industrial Unionists, that there are actually only two classes, the working class and the boss class, and everything else is just mumbo jumbo made up to turn the working class against themselves so as to keep the boss class in power. It’s not about money, its about control