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Originally posted by Sebby
It's in one of those 4. Feel free to take my refusal to search for it as an admission of its lack of validity.
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I couldn't find it, but it sounds potentially interesting. I'm just not clear how you could sort out "white-collar workers" as a class.
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Actually, Ty, I come from a pretty fucking middle class background, and the last few years haven't been so bad at all. In fact, with the excpetion of some silly tax planning which bit me a little this year, I'd have to say I've done alright (even this year)... Me, a middle class guy.
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Aren't we all middle-class?
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It's a false juxtaposition because what's happening to the poor and what's happening to CEOs is like saying the atmosphere on Mars is comparable to that of Venus's. When slivers of the population people effectively live on two entirely different planets, comparing them is simply absurd. I can no more compare mself to the captains of industry than I could a dirt framer. Wheher there is inequality of income should be measured against people in positions comparable to mine. That will never happen because there is so much income volatility in the middle class that any study should shredded. So, instead, people cite Joe Foreman against Bill Smith, CEO. It's dishonest.
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If ("if") government policies are being used to make the rich richer (e.g., extending copyright) rather than improving the lot of the middle class (e.g., education), that's something that's relevant to me. I'm not sure why looking at these things in the aggregate is dishonest. CEO pay (e.g.) doesn't magically happen. If CEOs are taking in increased share of the pie, it's because the various restraints on their conduct have been weakened.
