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Originally Posted by boost
the signs people are holding at the convention read "Middle Class First". This rubs me wrong for some reason. Like, it's just as bad as someone who says Rich People First. How about just people first? What about lower class people? It probably just sounded good, and whoever was behind the signs just didn't think it through, but it's sad to see all those people ecstatically waving the signs.
Yeah everybody who doesn't examine their beliefs on a detailed philosophical level live in the same kind of bubble as everybody else. Just like the wealthy class doesn't understand the struggle of the middle class, the middle class doesn't understand the struggle of the poor class or classes further down the hierarchy like the prison or starving classes
However, on a philosophical level, a "middle class first" idea can be of merit because the construction of the middle class is a socioeconomic phenomenon that raises people out of poverty status into a sort of pseudo-wealthy class due to more civil freedom and economic opportunity throughout a society.
The American Dream was once the social mobility that provided for any poor person to become middle class. Over the last few decades, that ideal has been bastardized into any middle class person becoming filthy rich, and the unintended consequences have been a destitution of the very social mobility from poor to middle as well as backwards mobility from middle to poor; all the while the rich have been getting richer, perhaps in part because of an internalization of the bastardized American Dream ideal.
So the "middle class first" concept can resonate with a move towards liberty, prosperity, and egalitarianism
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