#middle class status

[amaditalks]

Our political rhetoric in the US has also resulted in this misunderstanding of socioeconomic classification. People believing that they are a part of the middle class even when they aren’t doesn’t just apply to people who aren’t earning enough to be middle class, but also to people who earn too much. People in the top 10% or even 5% of earners, living in homes worth seven figures, will swear to their middle class status.

Politicians nod to that by constantly referring to their policy ideas for middle class people, knowing that almost everyone who hears them will believe that they are talking to them. It reinforces wrongheaded ideas about where people reside on the socioeconomic ladder, but more devastating it collapses class solidarity and lends to the erasure of poor people and their needs from our public and political discourse.



Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

[mymoneyepisodes]

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[determinate-negation]

a lot of times when americans start talking about the middle class you really get the sense that they dont realize that what they consider “just middle class” is actually very wealthy to the majority of the world. like how can you say this with so little self awareness

[yesthefandomfreakblr]

Gregor: I'm like TWELVE you can't expect me to just up and be the best fighter!

Ripred: Well when I was your age I was the most dangerous animal in all the underland and building my reputation.

Gregor: when you were my age you had a wife.

Ripred:Below the belt, kid. Damn.

[extralively]

More SatoYura found family happenings in The Sims! Today: some family bonding, Yura graduating, and she and Satoru take the next step...

Let's get to it!

Here's Megumi hanging out at Yura's apartment (they're next door neighbors) and Satoru was there too because of course (again, he's actually their property owner and also Yura's woohoo partner). I imagine it's almost a relief for the Fushiguros to have an adult nearby that can take care of them/listen to them/mentor them, and Yura just took one look at those kids and was like THEY'RE MINE NOW

And as much as I wanna joke that Satoru just goes along with what Yura wants, my headcanon for this is that he was the one who was financially taking care of the Fushiguros at the beginning after finding out there were two kids living alone in one of his apartments (similar to real canon!). But then once Yura decided to step in and play the mom role, he just naturally fell into being the dad of this makeshift family... kinda like main fic canon ♡( ◡‿◡ )

I imagine in this photo both Yura and Megumi were picking on Satoru as usual, hence his face.

And in true makeshift family fashion, Satoru invited Yura + the Fushiguros to visit his big ass house. Cue family bonding time!

Now I'm picturing them in the main fic having family bonding time over board games and such, because they definitely did that ༼ಢ_ಢ༽ Consider it canon!!

Putting the Fushiguros aside for now (they'll be back!), Yura has at last graduated from university!

(After the game pissed me off by tanking Yura's grades when I was playing in a different household and she was was basically held back in some classes, like bish tf is this (ง •̀_•́)ง )

So now Yura has a psychology degree that she can use to become a detective, heheheh. If this Yura won't be investigating curses, she'll be investigating real crimes instead!

Also, guess who went to her graduation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and also who started taking picture together like two best friends who sleep together but are also in love ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You can bet your ass they've taken these exact same photos in the main fic

So anyway. With Yura having graduated, guess what? She finally got the nerve to ask Satoru to be her boyfriend!! No more woohoo partners who are helplessly in love, main fic Yura could never!!

...And like, immediately after, this prompt pops up in the screen:

I am not joking, this was immediately after. Satoru does not waste any time.

(also she said yes)

[yuanwang]

hiiii <3 <3 <3 twirls hair

[i-am-totally-not-a-lizard]

*looking into my personal refrigerated box and multiple shelves of incredibly intricately processed foods from all over the world packaged and streamlined for easy and ready consumption, with access to more resources and variety available than has ever been possible before, while in the most prosperous region and era in the history of mankind*: dam there's nothin to eat :/

[nostalgia-tblr]

the two extremes of loki fanfiction:

fetishising his social status and making him the Hot CEO (lolwhut) in a story, often with a frankly bizarre habit of casting characters of equal status (Thor & Sylvie, for instance) into lower class positions because... reasons? This is a bit more justifiable for Sylvie except most of these things don't make her homeless or genuinely living in a precarious situation, they make her lower middle class at 'worst' and also we'll all just ignore that she's otherwise literally a princess.

everyone treating him like he is unimportant and lacking in influence and can be casually picked on by basically anyone, like he can't just have the W4 flogged if they get too annoying. i would put this one down to focussing too much on Loki's view of things in the first Thor movie, which is that if you're not the heir to the throne you don't matter, which misses the fact that this is a very blinkered view and objectively wrong. this lad is pretty much guaranteed (unless he were to somehow fuck it all up...) to only increase in power and influence over time. fandom treating him like a poor little match-child with his face pressed sadly to the glass, staring in at the warmth of a fire when he cannot afford even a single lump of coal, is fucking baffling to me.

[swallowtail-ageha]

Sometimes i see mlb salt posters that are still posting salt frequently and more often than any kind of other post in their blogs about the cartoon like bro you've been here since 2018 its a mediocre toddlers cartoon let that shit go move on....

[viravosmonarchy]

I hope Aaravos kills *more* monarchs and stops *more* genocides next season. If those are crimes then I want to be a criminal.

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

hi im still here and freaking out about. far harbor. here's my weird 10-going-on-21 year old autistic synth extraordinaire being a catalyst for me infodumping faraday headcanons

tw for a mention of suicide & just. general institute dehumanizing bullshit

"No way you're that old." Shaun laughed halfheartedly, tried to keep his demeanor light. He bit his tongue to prevent himself from completing his thought -- Synths like you don't last that long. Records of decommissions and suicides took up more disk space in the Institute's archive of first-batch synths than anything else. Piles of evidence showing the mass production of self-aware beings was far from sustainable. But after years of hardware review and cognitive recalibration software tests, the gain-to-loss ratio evened out. Shaun recalled the single designation-B synth that was always pacing up and down the hall across from his and Father's dormitory. She was a good worker, Father had said. A sweet girl of fifty-four. Residence maintenance, the best of her crew. Her occasional bouts of hysterics were well worth her steady hands with the plumbing.

The breathy chuckle that came from Faraday was equally grim. "Not the first-first-batch, no. I was a couple years down the line. Maybe early '30s? I don't remember." He tapped a pen on his chin in thought.

"Designation K. Robotics handled me. I tended to work with gen-ones and twos -- stuck fixing busted hydraulics, usually. If I was really lucky, one would come in with a unique software error for me to pick apart." "Some of the human scientists liked to watch me work. You know, back then, we were novelties. But others probably wished I would just mop the floors or something instead."

Electricity thrummed in the background. Terminal upon terminal filled with Institute-proprietary materials: memory and horribly simplified emotional data from a machine older than any being on the whole island, barring Shaun's own mother. The makeshift archive was puny by Institute standards, but a goddamn miracle to anyone else in a 500-mile radius. Acadia's knack for technological innovation started to make sense. "They let you touch software? That was unheard of by my time. I'd get my ass handed to me any time I touched a computer."

"Well, there wasn't much choice back then. The Institute wasn't particularly well staffed. All of the founders were long dead, as were most of their children. Their grandchildren were running out of... options, when it came to reproducing a replacement workforce."

Shaun listened raptly as Faraday spoke, pleasantly surprised by how easily this information was given. His parents had made it sound like all Acadians were some unsolvable enigma -- as guarded against outsiders as their neighbors at the Harbor. Yet here he sat in the private room of one of the colony's three figureheads; and the man was perfectly content to reminisce to a stranger.

To a child. Shaun saw his appearance in the faint reflection the observatory window offered. He took this opportunity to push further while he still could.

"So then you left. Why?"

A despondent exhale. "Why did any of us leave?"

[cupiare]

this school really deserves its impending doom bcs management is soooo tone deaf “but why do our students choose to go to uni in their own city and out of the 2 they choose the non russell group one why aren’t we doing something to support them to aim higher 🤔” could it possibly be that this school is in one of the most deprived areas of the city/nationwide and thats a significant factor affecting academic achievement so students default to the uni w lower entry requirements theyre likely to get into? or maybe that our predominantly immigrant students and their families don’t share the culture of moving out and living independently at 18? that their immigration status and overseas qualifications affect their entry requirements ? that many of them are responsible for their families and don’t want to leave them? that its more affordable to stay home and not be in even more debt by taking out a maintenance loan to stay alive? the girls who aren’t allowed to leave home before marriage? what a truly confounding phenomenon that our students don’t go to a russell group uni it must be a very bad look that we get 90% students in higher education or formal training after college but not the ‘best’ choice. But what do i know i guess !

[hazamacore]

“I felt like a bona fide clown. One of them explained that communism was a political-economic system, but i wasn’t listening. I was just digging on myself. I had been hooping and hollering about something that i didn't even understand. I knew i didn’t know what the hell communism was, and yet i'd been dead set against it. Just like when you’re a little kid and they get you to believe in the bogeyman. You don't know what the hell the bogeyman is, but you hate him and you’re scared of him.

I never forgot that day. We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is.”

- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

[breitzbachbea]

Can I just say I am so mad that my latest AU brainrot is set in some alternative history but very clearly Regency Era inspired world, because that prohibits SicIre dancing to "Uptown Girl" at their wedding celebrations. Emanuela was right to decline the invitation for the whole family, before there could have been any incidents during the "She's getting tired of all her high class toys // And all the presents from her uptown boys" lines.

[nohkalikai]

it's always ppl from upper class backgrounds who lash out at u the most for .....also being upper class

[ehlnofay]

sorry but apropos of nothing I am pondering pride and prejudice once again (regular occurence). saw someone describe elizabeth bennet as "middle class". if the internet inexplicably vanishes in the next few hours it's because I blew it up