• kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    There are plenty of people that don’t consider themselves poor or who most people would not consider poor who are still in the labor class. If you produce value more than extract value from ownership then you are labor class.

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      18 hours ago

      Most poor people don’t consider themselves poor because it is considered a terrible thing to be poor.

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      21 hours ago

      There are plenty of people that don’t consider themselves poor

      That doesn’t make them right. That just makes them less poor than those that are dirt poor.

      If you’re not floating around on a yacht then you’re comparatively poor. They can afford things these so called rich people you talk about could never afford.

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        Just because theyre not “right” doesn’t mean this person doesn’t have a point; when you use the word poor, lots of people can’t or wont identify that way.

        I’m in agreement with you generally, and I have made the same argument as you before. But people wont get this, they wont hear your argument because theyre too busy feeling like youre ridiculous for calling them poor. The sheer magnitude of wealth disparity is not well understood by your average joe.

        The other commenter is offering more precise wording thats less likely to be understood wrong.

        If I want to teach you to cook, but we can’t move on from whether its called a “spatula” or a “flipper”, nobody is learning anything.