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overton on Dec 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy

How about instead of fetishizing ascendance to the middle class we start building a society where working class people can live in dignity too?

whatshisface on Dec 20, 2020 | [–]

That means putting them in the middle class. Middle class means you have income from both labor and capital, it includes plumbers with healthy retirement savings. The only way to be lower class is to have severely insufficient savings.

x3c on Dec 20, 2020 | [–]

They aren't mutually exclusive

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