Does anyone believe we/you/I can actually 'change' our class?
as in,migrate from working to middle class?
that is of course,if you believe in 'class'in the first instance?
Or might it be a 'generational' migration... the working class family works hard, puts a child through school college/uni... children, brought up in a more comfortable (traditionaly) background, have become, by dint of the work of others; Middle Class.
Me?
w/c
lp
Spitoon is thataway, cowboy! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
:giggle:
... and remember to put my seat down when finished
lp
I never questioned how hard people work,I merely wondered about the true value of that root of any economy/society is what it produces,the harridan Thatcher failed to recognise this and we all paid and are paying the price.
The media and political classes of our country have since then derided and belittled the working classes,when once we were the salt of the earth we are now all chavs ,poorly educated lager louts and scum.
So when you tell me about your paperwork in such an affronted manner consider that everyday in some paper or news report me and mine are insulted and mocked,I am offended I am angry and I have no compunction about repaying this in kind.
I repeat (with a caveat) the middle classes are and have been historically parasites,their livings are earned on the sweat of another mans brow....caveat I would exclude to a large extent though not entirely the medical and teaching proffesions
well.... I consider, and carry with me, the label Working Class... as born and toiled under by my forebares.
I have no shame in the label, and see it as a badge that, should I wish, I wear with pride.
I have 'produced' goods and material in the past... have wiped sweat from my brow... fetched and carried for them wat can afford the priveledge.
At present I 'produce' not a good god damned thing... and yet the work I do I personaly value more than any single thing I have done in the past, or will do in the future.
Many aspects of this work would be touched others... messy, horrid stuff... bleaurgh.
I am, and remain Lady's and Gentlemen, Your Humble Servant.
now then... tea break?
lp
In edit - original post deleted.
Do you know what? Feck it. It's not worth getting wound up over this.
Lemmy had it right
'eat the rich'
class war.... good grief what on earth am I on about?
lp
I have it! The definitive, erm, definition.
Working classes have gravy
Middle classes have sauce!
:smug:
Youw would have thought that in a modern, reasonably well educated and balanced society that the class system which defined most societies would have died out by now.. however, even in the US where everyone is supposed to be "equal" the class system is still alive and kicking, though now largely defined in most countries by material wealth, etc..
