class ladders
- class ladders are obviously different in different places
- eg the UK has a landed gentry, but many other places don't
- eg India has its caste system(s)
- they can also exist as multiple ladders in parallel, as in Michael O Church's model
- (underclass)
- Labor (occupations, organization)
- Gentry (educated, cultural)
- Elite (money, power)
- list of different class ladders
2 linked references
February 20th, 2021
- > It so happens that you can determine a huge amount about the economic and social prospects of people in America today by asking one remarkably simple question: how do they get most of their income?
- Broadly speaking—there are exceptions, which I’ll get to in a moment—it’s from one of four sources:
- investment class: returns on investment
- salary class: a monthly salary
- wage class: an hourly wage
- welfare class: a government welfare check
- People who get most of their income from one of those four things have a great many interests in common, so much so that it’s meaningful to speak of the American people as divided into an investment class, a salary class, a wage class, and a welfare class.
- and basically the non-pathologizing explanations of Trump & Brexit is that the wage class has been rekt since 1970 by immigration and off-shoring of manufacturing, and then blamed for their own suffering
- and Trump invites the same sneering from salary class folks, so even though he has so much money, he feels like one of them