It depends who you ask, but I tend to hold that the middle class is somewhere between plumbers with a sole proprietorship and petit-bourgeois family businesses up to a point. They do still exist, but it’s such a vanishingly small class I’m not exactly sure why I as a worker should be expected to defend their interests when they so rarely defend mine.
I’m increasingly of the belief that we never had a middle class, just a fiction of one
It depends who you ask, but I tend to hold that the middle class is somewhere between plumbers with a sole proprietorship and petit-bourgeois family businesses up to a point. They do still exist, but it’s such a vanishingly small class I’m not exactly sure why I as a worker should be expected to defend their interests when they so rarely defend mine.