The cheese of the middle class has as many holes as the negotiations for the formation of a government. The surveys repeat it: we identify with a social class higher than our real one, come on, we are naive or inconsistent, although later it has consequences and we vote what we vote for.
While our politicians are doing their thing and “, “coward” and other adjectives of the bunch: “You are working class if…” and leaves the first definition: “if you listen to your neighbor on the other side of the wall.” Well yes, when streaming is added it seems like a poltergeist. Let’s see, it seems obvious: a worker is anyone who receives a salary, whether 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 are working class if when you finish a bottle of oil you put it upside down in the oil can for a while.” One of the most applauded definitions, in addition to defining what area of ??the working class we are referring to, which is not that 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 is children’s orthodontics, the crying also spreads through the walls. For another tweeter, you are… that is if you “believe in the culture of effort.” Well, less and less. Another: “if before throwing away an old t-shirt, you use it as pajamas until it is transparent and then as a cleaning cloth” or “if you add water to the gel when it runs out so that it lasts longer.” That’s called recycling and it’s very good.
We really like this one: “if you have a shelf in the kitchen full of containers with messy lids.” And this more modern one: “if you wait for a new iPhone to come out, buy the previous version, which will be cheaper.” Or the classic: “if at the Christmas meal the chairs are not all the same.”
A good part of the answers focus on the size of the home – “if you have the sofa against 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 hardships – “if you have a month left over at the end of your salary”–. But perhaps the most prescient definition is this: “if you think you are middle class.” Even if you have an iPhone.
