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I'm not sure if that is true of the working class. They go to work, come home, crash, and eventually retire. Social Security uses the terms "retirement" benefit and "survivors" benefit. A beneficiary, of course, could be both retired and a survivor. It is not unreasonable for a retired survivor to be surprised when she learns she can only be one or the other.
WHAT??!! What an elitist, snobby thing to say. Sorry to be the one to inform you that "working class" people are just as intelligent, capable, and apparently more clued into reality, than someone who would post that. As a "working class" person, I guarantee our lives never consisted of go to work, come home, crash, and retire. We planned, saved, and made our life decisions many, many years in advance so that we would never be "surprised" to learn the difference between have and have not. Maybe "read the room" before making such tactless (and classless) statements.
I'm not sure if that is true of the working class. They go to work, come home, crash, and eventually retire. Social Security uses the terms "retirement" benefit and "survivors" benefit. A beneficiary, of course, could be both retired and a survivor. It is not unreasonable for a retired survivor to be surprised when she learns she can only be one or the other.
If you have a job then you are "working class" which makes up the majority of Americans.
If you have a job then you are "working class" which makes up the majority of Americans.
I've never met anyone in my life who wasn't working class meaning everyone I have known worked for what they have and I don't know any royalty or someone who inherited a fortune.
"Working class" is defined as "manual or industrial work." Also called "blue collar," including the trades. Jobs that are not only not among the professions (law, medicine, education), but not requiring college; only training, either vocational or on-the-job. I wouldn't consider it an insult, however; they often make more money than those with useless liberal arts degrees...
"Working class" is defined as "manual or industrial work." Also called "blue collar," including the trades. Jobs that are not only not among the professions (law, medicine, education), but not requiring college; only training, either vocational or on-the-job. I wouldn't consider it an insult, however; they often make more money than those with useless liberal arts degrees...
Well then they should call it manual labor class since almost everyone works and usually works hard for their income regardless if they're a lawyer or a plumber.
It's a known fact that if DH passes I will get half of his pension amount, so we plan for it.
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Well then they should call it manual labor class since almost everyone works and usually works hard for their income regardless if they're a lawyer or a plumber.
...or we could just learn the language/lexicon as it is? I think most people understand that, by "working class," we DON'T mean lawyers.
...or we could just learn the language/lexicon as it is? I think most people understand that, by "working class," we DON'T mean lawyers.
Or we could be more specific when we discuss such things so it's not assumed everyone who works for a living is in the "working class" because they don't usually get their hands dirty, even though the word "working" is used as in going to work every day to earn money and take home a paycheck.
Last edited by marino760; 12-16-2023 at 03:07 PM..
It wouldn't be a "class" of workers if it referred to all working people, as that's MOST people.
Way to unnecessarily complicate things!
John Lennon wrote a great song: "Working Class Hero." I think we all knew what he meant.
Not rich or privileged or an attorney.
But we digress...
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