Could you elaborate on your distinction between the American middle class and the PMC? As an outsider I think it would help me to understand JMG's writings better as well.
I had thought the distinction might be that lower middle class people suffer when the working class suffers and upper middle class people don't. If you're high enough in the middle class that you, say, work for a bank and your entire job is moving money around for rich people, then you care more that the rich succeed rather than whatever is going on with the working class. So at some point in the spectrum of the middle class you stop caring about the working class.
But there are definitely people in the middle class who care about the working class; they are the ones close enough to that dividing line that their children might experience downward social mobility into the working class. They see that downward slide into a world that has no jobs, and know it's a problem. These are people that might have gone to college themselves in a prior decade with a better economy, but they are unable to put their kids through college. Anyway, I'm interested to hear your distinction of these categories.
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Distinction between the middle class and the PMC
Date: 2021-01-11 04:10 pm (UTC)I had thought the distinction might be that lower middle class people suffer when the working class suffers and upper middle class people don't. If you're high enough in the middle class that you, say, work for a bank and your entire job is moving money around for rich people, then you care more that the rich succeed rather than whatever is going on with the working class. So at some point in the spectrum of the middle class you stop caring about the working class.
But there are definitely people in the middle class who care about the working class; they are the ones close enough to that dividing line that their children might experience downward social mobility into the working class. They see that downward slide into a world that has no jobs, and know it's a problem. These are people that might have gone to college themselves in a prior decade with a better economy, but they are unable to put their kids through college. Anyway, I'm interested to hear your distinction of these categories.