America doesn't really have a working class
Kade U
Kade U
8h
>unless they are going off of the fact that their parents owned some company and sent them to fancy private schools but as young adults they were a struggling journalist.
this is a real phenomenon in NYC specifically, which explains the connection to Mamdani's win. there's a lot of people with relatively wealthy parents who went to... See more
Kade U
8h
>unless they are going off of the fact that their parents owned some company and sent them to fancy private schools but as young adults they were a struggling journalist.
this is a real phenomenon in NYC specifically, which explains the connection to Mamdani's win. there's a lot of people with relatively wealthy parents who went to... See more
Democrats’ strategy for winning union voters is broken
In the future, current class structures will dissolve and humanity will settle into two groups: those people who have actual skills (surgeons, hairdressers, helicopter pilots) and everyone else, who are kind of faking it through life. Implicit in aclassification is the idea that a fully linked world no longer needs a middle class.
Douglas Coupland • Bit Rot: stories + essays
The assumption is that the new divide over values and identity cuts across the old divide over class and attitudes to the economy.