There are at-least 2 dimensions of class:
1 is actual working, ie trades vs beaurocracy,
& the other is identity-nation based validity within one's class.
The actual working classes are real: there's no point in pretending that somebody who knows all sorts of beaurocratic rules as their career is competent on a construction-site the way a working tradesperson can be, & vice versa.
The problem isn't that.
The problem is the exclusivity-presumption, the "us vs them" presumption, the identity/nation prejudice, instead-of-collaborating toward our common good, through our different capabilities.
The identity-nation based validity is the crystallization of the problem/prejudice.
I'm saying that as an underclass person: worthless human garbage, a person who's racked-up 7+y as an outright homeless person, & don't ever bother pretending that the middle-class & upper-middle-class could EVER consider an inferior to be "valid" in THEIR class's validity: I've experienced that prejudice enough to know the condescension & contempt are indestructible.
( I was born into upper-middle-class, & life taught me just how prejudiced that class is. Karmically correcting. )
Paul Fussell's books on the North American class-system gave me some leverage/understanding years ago, & have been working on bettering that, ever since.
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PS: Fussell told us directly that the working-class measures someone's validity by money.
I've encountered that enough that accepting it as true is required.
& that the middle-class measures someone's validity by their institution-bestowed-validity, or position.
ditto, to that, too.
& that the upper-class measures someone's validity by their power.
I've seen that's true, too.
The cultural-frame one grows-up-in really is "glasses" one sees "reality" through, completely.
Breaking the entire reincarnation-cycle's better than being imprisonned within such segregated-cultures, tho..
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