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To: flatsville who wrote (19022)	9/17/2000 10:41:55 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (2) of 436258

Flats, on "righteous indignation": most of that response is founded on a set of middle-class conceits, namely that 1) white-collar jobs are of higher status than blue-collar jobs, and are therefore deserving of higher pay 2) that a college degree grants a certain set of entitlements, such as the "right" to have a higher standard of living that those in blue-collar jobs 3) that one's worth as a person is determined by the status of one's employment Although these precepts may be laughable, they are believed tacitly, or so it seems, by most middle-class Americans. In light of this, it is helpful to review the definition of "proletariat": Main Entry: pro·le·tar·i·at Pronunciation: "prO-l&-'ter-E-&t, -'tar-, -E-"at Function: noun Etymology: French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius Date: 1853 1 : the lowest social or economic class of a community 2 : the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live ----------- Sounds like most of the middle class as well, despite their petit-bourgeois ambitions.

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