Do any white people still follow that hype? Children’s cartoon shows did taught that people can succeed if their continue their preconceived notion of success regardless of the circumstance. However, many people should be disillusioned by the deceit. This is not like those video games that offer high entertainment value in the early stage of the game progression and then make the players continue the stage of boring progression with fake promises.

For your and others’ consideration: https://redcompass.substack.com/p/the-middle-class-is-not-a-myth

Not in a Marxist sense. And the way it’s being phrased in this post or video title doesn’t work either because “middle class” is nebulous and intentionally ill-defined. There is a quantitative amount of wealth owned by billionaires, but what arbitrary lines are differentiating the vague qualitative terms like “middle class” from “upper class” or “lower class” to even compare to that quantitative amount? It’s meaningless here unless the author of the video goes into a lot of detail defining exactly what is meant by “middle class” in a way that puts hard limits on how much wealth that class has, not to mention explaining why the “lower/bottom class” was left out of the analysis.

But that doesn’t mean that there is no such thing as the concept of a middle class, even if it has limited explanatory power and has historically been used to obscure class as a relation to the means of production which has far more explanatory power. Explanatory power like giving people the basis for gaining class consciousness, which “upper/middle/lower class” terminology never can. There is still a difference between someone living out of their 30 year old car who is only hired for temporary seasonal work and someone with a salary who comfortably rents a 2-story 4-bedroom house with a pool in the “middle class” suburbs, even if neither one of them owns any means of production. There are distinctions inherent in the use of upper/middle/lower class that are real and that everyone knows even if they don’t know the difference between private and personal property, and when we tell them “there is no such thing” they’re only going to hear “there is no distinction to be made here” and think Marxists are full of shit and useless jargon. It’s infinitely more helpful to say that “using ‘middle class’ here really isn’t helpful or make much sense. A better way to draw a line between classes is…” etc.

I was just about to comment this too. lol