The cheese of the middle class has as many holes as the negotiations for the formation of the government. The polls repeat it: we identify with a social class higher than our real one, well, that we are naive or inconsequential, even if later it has consequences and what is voted is voted.
While our politicians go about their business and X becomes a cross, we suppose that due to the influence of the letter that now gives its name to the old Twitter, a user of the network, Josefine, proposes a thread away from hashtag-type trends “miserable”, “coward” and other common adjectives: “You are working class if…” and leave the first definition: “if you listen to your neighbor on the other side of the wall”. Well yes, when you add streaming it looks like something like a poltergeist. Let’s see, it seems obvious: a worker is anyone who receives a salary, be it high or low, but within workers there are classes and classes.
Let’s continue, because there is more truth in this viral thread than in a plenary session of Congress. “You’re working class if when you finish a bottle of oil you put it upside down in the bucket for a while.” One of the most applauded definitions, in addition to delimiting which area of ??the working class we are referring to, which is not the area of ??comfort; if the price continues to rise, we will put the empty bottle on the shelves as a souvenir.
You are… “when you have a toothache, you are more concerned about the price of the dentist than the pain”. And if it’s children’s orthodontics, the whining also spreads through the walls. According to another tweeter, you are… that if you “believe in the culture of effort”. Well, less and less. Another: “if before you throw away an old T-shirt you use it as pajamas until it is transparent and then as a cleaning cloth” or “if you put ice water on it when it is finished so that it lasts longer”. This is called recycling and it is very good.
We really like this one: “if you have a shelf in the kitchen full of corks with messy tops”. And this more modern one: “if you wait for a new iPhone to come out to buy the previous version that will be cheaper”. Or the classic: “if the chairs are not all the same at Christmas lunch”.
A good part of the answers focus on the size of the home – “if you have the sofa attached to the wall”, “if you keep the pans in the oven”, or a more aspirational version: “if you don’t have an island in the kitchen” – or in economic straits – if you have a month left at the end of your salary”-. But perhaps the most clairvoyant definition is this: “if you think you are middle class”. Even if you have an iPhone.
