I'm not saying you're dividing people, I'm saying you're using terms made to divide the working class. Those generally accepted terms literally exist so people like doctors don't have to feel like they're in the same class as cashiers.

You say obtainable for the "majority of working class people", but I've seen very few cases of this actually happening in a meaningful way. You come from a higher income bracket, you stay in a higher income bracket. You come from a lower income bracket, you most likely stay in a lower income bracket.

I'm fully aware of who the struggle is against. My problem is that these "working class" "middle class" whatever you want to call them "class" people tend to think of themselves as "coming up" or "temporarily embarrassed", and try not to lump themselves in with "the poors". I have no faith that these people would want to actually change what would need to be changed, because it would damage their chances of becoming legitimately wealthy one day, and if you're already that close, you're not going to want to give up that shot.

It's emblematic in a lot of these comments, actually. People who seem to just straight up not understand/appreciate their own levels of privilege. That's the thing that pissed me off to begin with: just somebody living in Seattle (one of the most expensive COL areas in the country) talking about their multiple trips to Hawaii, and casually talking about owning multiple cars. It's so out of touch. That's not remotely the world that most of the working class live in. It's about as unrealistic for me as owning multiple mansions and yachts and private jets. We do not share the same class interests.

And the part that makes me saddest isn't even how obvious it is that this "working class" you're talking about don't even care about the "working poor", it's that they don't even think about the "working poor".