More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, underscoring how inflation is taking a bigger bite out of Americans’ budgets at all ends of the pay spectrum.
No, they don’t. On the surface level, sure, we all want more money and less work hours. But that overlooks the details of the specific professions/industries and their relative position to capital, or just simply their income.
For example, abolishing tipping culture by instating minimum wage is good. But there’s still a lot of service workers who make a lot more money from tips compared to a fixed wage, so they rather fuck everyone else to maintain their position. Ask a silicon valley tech worker who they think should deserves 6 figure salaries. Ask them if they want to build affordable housing next door to their home. Ask a STEM major if social workers deserve the same salary as them, or what they consider ‘useless majors.’ Ask a pig if they’re willing to stand in solidarity with striking food workers. This doesn’t mean that all of them are like this, but the majority of them are.
Sometimes these professions and industries collide in unity, like in Argentina with cops and workers protesting against Millei. But there are stark differences overall.
The fact that we have a labour aristocracy doesn’t mean that their fundamental interests are different. The actual problem is that people in that bracket often don’t see themselves as part of the working class. However, a lot of the people in tech are now discovering that they are not in fact capitalists as stuff like mass layoffs start to hit them personally. So, the issue is with lack of political education, and divisions within labour that prevent a unified front against capital from forming.
No, they don’t. On the surface level, sure, we all want more money and less work hours. But that overlooks the details of the specific professions/industries and their relative position to capital, or just simply their income.
For example, abolishing tipping culture by instating minimum wage is good. But there’s still a lot of service workers who make a lot more money from tips compared to a fixed wage, so they rather fuck everyone else to maintain their position. Ask a silicon valley tech worker who they think should deserves 6 figure salaries. Ask them if they want to build affordable housing next door to their home. Ask a STEM major if social workers deserve the same salary as them, or what they consider ‘useless majors.’ Ask a pig if they’re willing to stand in solidarity with striking food workers. This doesn’t mean that all of them are like this, but the majority of them are.
Sometimes these professions and industries collide in unity, like in Argentina with cops and workers protesting against Millei. But there are stark differences overall.
The fact that we have a labour aristocracy doesn’t mean that their fundamental interests are different. The actual problem is that people in that bracket often don’t see themselves as part of the working class. However, a lot of the people in tech are now discovering that they are not in fact capitalists as stuff like mass layoffs start to hit them personally. So, the issue is with lack of political education, and divisions within labour that prevent a unified front against capital from forming.
most silicon valley 6 figure salaried workers do not own a home… nor will they ever unless they leave silicon valley or they win the IPO lottery