- 19 Sep 2016 19:00
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A point for thought on the topic.
All over the talk of politics specially between left and right and heck even everyday politics.
There is always a talk of classes and hatred of some classes by others and vice versa for the given class.
But 'm wondering, what is exactly the boundary between classes ?
How do you know what class the person is ?
Sure, some will talk about certain life styles for each class. But here is the point, if lets say a random person is growing in income and financial position, his or her life style isn't going to suddenly change, at best its gradual and slow over the years. same for those falling in financial status.
And in many times its not even related to financial status or even level of authority.
Sometime life style doesn't change, rather the person chooses he likes how he lives and stay like that.
For example, from personal experience, many of the people of Baalbak were poor working class or rather lower working class people back in the 70s and early 80s. Then the weed trade and the arms trades came along and many became very rich due to it and the rest had a sudden mass increase in financial status due to the new flow of wealth to the area. How ever the majority of them retained the same old simple life style just as they were before this rush.
So what is the boundary between different classes ?
If not life style ? then what is ?
Even to those who would say the relation to the means of production, that still doesn't answer many questions. People in Baalbak are still the ones growing everything and manufactoring many of the weapons sold mainly ammunitions.
Farmers in Iran have higher income than the average manager in a bussiness firm. Specially those with large inherited farming lands due to wide inflation in the markets in the recent decades.
Cattle farmers all across the middle east, or atleast the countries i spent time in, are richer than the average person and have higher income, yet they still retain very simple and poor appearing life style.
And through unions or representatives they have larger leverage on politics and regulations in their place than many others.
Yet all the above are still looked at as lower classes and workers.
So considering this, what exactly is this boundary between classes and how can you tell a person's class ?
All over the talk of politics specially between left and right and heck even everyday politics.
There is always a talk of classes and hatred of some classes by others and vice versa for the given class.
But 'm wondering, what is exactly the boundary between classes ?
How do you know what class the person is ?
Sure, some will talk about certain life styles for each class. But here is the point, if lets say a random person is growing in income and financial position, his or her life style isn't going to suddenly change, at best its gradual and slow over the years. same for those falling in financial status.
And in many times its not even related to financial status or even level of authority.
Sometime life style doesn't change, rather the person chooses he likes how he lives and stay like that.
For example, from personal experience, many of the people of Baalbak were poor working class or rather lower working class people back in the 70s and early 80s. Then the weed trade and the arms trades came along and many became very rich due to it and the rest had a sudden mass increase in financial status due to the new flow of wealth to the area. How ever the majority of them retained the same old simple life style just as they were before this rush.
So what is the boundary between different classes ?
If not life style ? then what is ?
Even to those who would say the relation to the means of production, that still doesn't answer many questions. People in Baalbak are still the ones growing everything and manufactoring many of the weapons sold mainly ammunitions.
Farmers in Iran have higher income than the average manager in a bussiness firm. Specially those with large inherited farming lands due to wide inflation in the markets in the recent decades.
Cattle farmers all across the middle east, or atleast the countries i spent time in, are richer than the average person and have higher income, yet they still retain very simple and poor appearing life style.
And through unions or representatives they have larger leverage on politics and regulations in their place than many others.
Yet all the above are still looked at as lower classes and workers.
So considering this, what exactly is this boundary between classes and how can you tell a person's class ?
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