"The 'middle-class' is a faux class. It never really existed. If you have a boss, and earn wages or salary, you are a worker, and should be proud to be in the working class. The term 'middle class' isolates more privileged workers for the benefit of the powerful so that anyone outside of elite circles will be divided and fighting against each other instead of fighting institutions and the power structure."
—David Graeber
@MikeDunnAuthor hearing Harris rattle on and on about the middle class made me feel like it's 2000 again. Seriously? Why are we still pretending the middle class is a) a thing, & b) more important than the "lower class"? Middle class is already elevated by definition, if you're going to focus on any segment, it should be lower class every time. Doing anything else doesn't make any fucking sense.