| query | ||
|---|---|---|
| TOTALCOUNT | WHY_DO_YOU_BELONG_TO_THIS_CLASS | |
| 1 | 585 | [empty string] |
| 2 | 6 | Student |
| 3 | 6 | income |
| 4 | 3 | because of the ability to live up well without the need of working |
| 5 | 3 | because i work |
| 6 | 3 | because i am a student and do not have time to work a job/i don't want to subject myself to the burden of employment. |
| 7 | 3 | I am a student. |
| 8 | 2 | I am unemployed. |
| 9 | 2 | Because I am up to my ears in debt!! |
| 10 | 2 | Because I'm poor and unemployed. |
| 11 | 2 | I think it's unfair to ask about "belongings" to a class. My economic situation right know would put me in the poor/unemployed box, because I'm a student, but I think afterwards my income will define me as an "upper middle class" but unemplouyment is also a close possibility, so I don't know. I don't have any bond or nostalgic fealings towards any class: the important thing and unifying factor is what we want - not what we are. But I don't negelct the importance of material conditions and priv |
| 12 | 2 | I make about $10,000/year; I live in a working class neighborhood; my friends are mostly working class. |
| 13 | 2 | big mistakes in my life |
| 14 | 2 | salary |
| 15 | 2 | Personal choice regarding radical simplicity |
| 16 | 2 | Income. |
| 17 | 2 | Based on income level. |
| 18 | 2 | Cushy office job with slightly above avg salary. |
| 19 | 2 | because im poor and unemployed, lol |
| 20 | 2 | income level |
| 21 | 2 | Education was always available. My family was able to provide for me while in university so I never needed to work full time. Now as a graduate student I get a decent stipend. Although I don't have any personal wealth, I always have a family to fall back on if something goes poorly. I will also never face the prospect of unemployment. So, even though I am by no means rich, I am comfortable and could very easily make myself rich if I decide to work in industry rather than academia. |
| 22 | 2 | money |
| 23 | 2 | I don't want a job |
| 24 | 2 | I work, am a student. |
| 25 | 2 | I am currently looking for a job |
| 26 | 2 | I support myself on 40 hours a week doing semi-skilled labor. While I have relatively little discretionary money after my basic bills are covered and no savings I'm comfortable enough that what I have largely goes to luxuries, mostly food and drink. Given the decline of the "middle class" I'd say that's enough to qualify now. |
| 27 | 2 | I still live with my parents. |
| 28 | 2 | I am a low paid public sector worker, I earn less than 66% the average wage in Britain. |
| 29 | 2 | I am a student still living with my parents who provide minor financial support. |
| 30 | 2 | I am poor and unemployed. |
| 31 | 2 | i'm currently a student. |
| 32 | 2 | Earn decently, don't own property or fancy car, nor could I afford them. Can afford occasional holiday. Have spare cash, not much savings, a bit of debt. |
| 33 | 2 | no job |
| 34 | 2 | because i have nothing to sell but my labour |
| 35 | 2 | I work for myself. Sometimes I get a few assignments, sometimes one and sometimes none. |
| 36 | 2 | I don't have a job. |
| 37 | 2 | because I'm unemployed. |
| 38 | 2 | I'm dependent on my parent's support. |
| 39 | 2 | I don´t have a job and I´m piss poor. |
| 40 | 2 | im a student |
| 41 | 1 | I'm a PhD student. |
| 42 | 1 | homeless, plus without right to be exploited. |
| 43 | 1 | Lack of motivation coupled with an aversion to poverty. |
| 44 | 1 | kill myself everyday for the man |
| 45 | 1 | Earn above the median income for my country. Parent is now in a fairly high government/management position |
| 46 | 1 | I'm basing this off of the idea that though my father, who I live with primarily, is a programmer, he is currently at the end of his current job, and freelances as his own employer to a company of his creation, and that, though he does not work at a loading area anymore and instead works an obvious white-collar job, we still do not do particularly well. He buys food once a month, and usually it is just enough to get through it. We have moved up in quality of food by getting a variety now, but it |
| 47 | 1 | I earn more 10 000 dollars more at the age of 35 than my mom does as a 67 year old after a liftime as a secretary. Also I hold a master degree in sociology, while my mom and dad were high school drop outs |
| 48 | 1 | Technically I'm unemployed, but my experiences still make me middle class. I have a different perspective because of that, I have experienced the benefits it brings, but if anything that only makes me see the unequal-ness of the world. I don't think I subscribe to the norms of my 'class'. |
| 49 | 1 | Mostly because of the way I make my living in the helping health professions. |
| 50 | 1 | Only based on income and material judgement, others may judge me as upper middle, otherwise I dont think class has any relevace today, its a sopecific and outdated coept used to oppress and categorize people |
| 51 | 1 | i'm a law student; parents have sort of higher income than usual; i don't work at the moment- typical middle class. |
| 52 | 1 | I was brought up in a lower middle class household in a nice suburban town and attend now a reputable public college. I work a minimum wage job to pay the bills, but could certainly move up on the career ladder once I get my bachelor's degree. I hope to live a more anarchist lifestyle in the future. |
| 53 | 1 | I differentiate classes just by financial situation. |
| 54 | 1 | Although I am well below the Federal "poverty line" I can't help noticing how high my standard of living is compared to those living in actual poverty. I may not be rich, but I'm not "poor" either. |
| 55 | 1 | Well paid technology worker when I work. |
| 56 | 1 | Though others might consider me Upper Middle Class, I consider myself working class. I do not own the means of production; I am not a capital owner. I am dependent upon my job to support my family. I am concerned that the middle class needs to wake up and become conscious of their exploitation (both being exploited and being the exploiters) |
| 57 | 1 | I am still a student, but at the same time I work a little making eniugh money to consider myself in this class. |
| 58 | 1 | Skilled, Higher Wage |
| 59 | 1 | I earn less than half the median wage in my country, but I'm doing interesting technical research. |
| 60 | 1 | Tragedy.. mmhmm mmhmm.. misery and triumph Piss poor, you know? Catastrophic moments They wanna know why I'm so seasoned, y'know Welfare recipient - there's a reason why I'm seasoned The reasoned the reasoned that we're seasoned Seasoned and we, feel our paper won't disappear Ohhh, hey it's been a long time in the bay with God on our side we have somethin to say and through the hard times we survive the game Survive the game |
| 61 | 1 | 1. I work in manufacturing in a very traditionally blue coller enviroment. 2. With repect comrades I dissagree with your definitions of class and agree with the one layed down by CLASS WAR,(see unfinised business), that the working class are basically 75% of society. |
| 62 | 1 | i don't try |
| 63 | 1 | student & wage slave, yet fairly well educated i guess.. what would you choose? |
| 64 | 1 | Personal and societal factors. |
| 65 | 1 | I sell my labour for money, although my job is seen by some as "middle class" occupation. I don't make many decisions about what the product or form of my labour will be. I do not obtain any income from the labour of others or from investments. |
| 66 | 1 | I am a journalist |
| 67 | 1 | Because I share a room (ie have no space of my own) and have to for a living to pay my way through the world. Everything I have has been acquired through hard work or theft by myself or from my parents. The 3/4 days of waged labour I do involve myself in is "white collar" style work. |
| 68 | 1 | I am well educated but poor. |
| 69 | 1 | Because I'm a wage slave! |
| 70 | 1 | I will never shake the middle class status that was handed down to me by my parents. |
| 71 | 1 | pay-packet basically. i'm an office-chimp in a dead-end job with no prospects, simple as. |
| 72 | 1 | I'm a college student who just got laid off from a dead-end job. I'm also living on my own and am independent of my family's support. |
| 73 | 1 | I am still a high school student, and my dad is an upper middle class university professor. |
| 74 | 1 | Because I have a professional job making the money attributed to middle class range. |
| 75 | 1 | Because of where I live and what opportunities were available to me. |
| 76 | 1 | people from my background? because we can't find jobs we like and we have other things to do with our lives than spend all of our time trying to make money. |
| 77 | 1 | I am a postman |
| 78 | 1 | Because of what I earn, because of what I concern myself about, and because of the 'free time' I have, I guess. |
| 79 | 1 | I make about minimum wage working in a collectively-run vegan cafe. However, I have class privilege in the form of a middle class background and a college education. |
| 80 | 1 | I may be unemployed as of now, but with any hope... I might find an income not reliant on a gigantic power bent on making me conform in every aspect of my actions and appearance... Any classification of the human race at all is... in my opinion... discrimination... to know one's roots and one's history isbeautiful, but to ask such a question broadly for purposes of information gahering just seems far too controlling for a free spirit like myself... therefore... I refuse to dignify with an eco |
| 81 | 1 | Just graduated University. |
| 82 | 1 | i have graduated college with no student loans, and have a trust fund left to me by my mother that could constitute me not having to work for a while, or being able to fully pay for law school up front which is pretty much only something in the upper middle class or upper class could do. |
| 83 | 1 | PhD student. Though I am also poor as well as being technically upper middle class. |
| 84 | 1 | Most of my income comes from wage labor. |
| 85 | 1 | There is no family money and I work for a living. |
| 86 | 1 | Because I am financially dependent on my parents (in college) and they are upper middle class. |
| 87 | 1 | Due to my economic status, I am both poor and unemployed. |
| 88 | 1 | I am currently a student living on a small amount of savings. This imposes lifestyle restrictions, but in many ways is preferable to entry level service work which would interfere with my studies. |
| 89 | 1 | I eat good food, have a comfortable home, I'm warm in winter and I drive a car. |
| 90 | 1 | I don't have a job and I am not supported by my parents. |
| 91 | 1 | Well my parents have now jobs and a little more money, yet their not rich. I work a maximum of 8 hours a week and I don't think I can consider myself higher than "poor" in those choices. But I don't really mind being poor as I don't need more money... |
| 92 | 1 | I have had a bad economic stretch which is beginning to rebound. |
| 93 | 1 | Income, leisure, quality of life, available options. |
| 94 | 1 | Mom was a teenage mother (conceived me at 16, born at 17, dad was 17/18), working class for a few generations on both sides of the family as far as I know. |
| 95 | 1 | Because I haven't yet learned to save enough money to progress further. |
| 96 | 1 | I have a bachelors degree. |
| 97 | 1 | Can not accept differentiation of humanity to classes |
| 98 | 1 | The privilege I've been raised with has given me the opportunities and access to resources I have today. |
| 99 | 1 | I work for a wage and don't have the power to hire or fire. My family lives check to check and has a lot of debt. |
| 100 | 1 | Even though I have no money and rely on benefits and a low paid job, I have been to University and have good options in life. |
| 101 | 1 | Student living with parents. |
| 102 | 1 | My husband and I make close to $100,000 per year which falls under the realm of upper middle class. |
| 103 | 1 | Because my wife and I have a decent income. |
| 104 | 1 | I study. |
| 105 | 1 | I've already worked, reached a high school degree and will study. I'm doing work that earns more money than other -mostly more fundamental- jobs. I'm not working in an industrial, but a service sector. I see myself in a class that depends on another one (the one which does fundamental work) but doesn't contribute much to it. |
| 106 | 1 | Because I work hard for a living |
| 107 | 1 | Education - grammar school and Oxford University, current profession of teacher and related income. |
| 108 | 1 | Because my parents don't support me anymore but, I make $15 an hour at a cushy non-profit job, and I always have my parents money to fall back on if something really bad happens in my life. |
| 109 | 1 | I always work like worker. |
| 110 | 1 | On my own merits I would be poor as I am unemployed currently and my partner has only a part time job. But, considering I receive considerable help from the largess of my family my living conditions would be closer to lower middle class. |
| 111 | 1 | I have to work for a living, therefore I'm working class. |
| 112 | 1 | We don't feel like we lack for anything, but we have a smaller house and fewer possessions than most of our friends and neighbors. Our jobs pay the bills, and provide us with modest savings -- or did until they were mostly wiped out by taxes. |
| 113 | 1 | I work for an hourly wage and do not manage anyone, but I was socialized educated as middle class and still carry that with me. |
| 114 | 1 | I work as a computer programmer. I have a trade that is well remunerated. My class is actually "proletarian" by any sane class model. But yes, I am a white-collar worker. Frankly I find the class definitions in this survey crazy. I understand the aim of the question, but calling this "class" is not something I would expect of anarchists. |
| 115 | 1 | Because I work for a living. |
| 116 | 1 | Single parent income for most of my life, always relied on govt. assistance to make it by. |
| 117 | 1 | My parents make enough money to be considered upper-middle class. I still depend on and live with them. |
| 118 | 1 | Because "Class" is an unimportant consideration. |
| 119 | 1 | I try to use as little money as possible in my everyday life and have no job. I am a student for a few more months though. AND I realise that dumpster diving isn't going to bring about a revolution of any kind. |
| 120 | 1 | based on income |
| 121 | 1 | I have enjoyed a rich education, learned 4 besides my mother tongue, was encouraged to try instruments and sports, graduated in Social Science, participated in setting up a social centre, anarcho-syndicalist union, a libertaerian newspaper with other students and am therefore more a white than a blue collar. On a salary level I am feeling closer to working class... |
| 122 | 1 | Although I don't have a job I am still part of the middle class, still living my parents and going to school. |
| 123 | 1 | the area i live in is run down. however my 'knowlage' of class issues (such as manner's ie not belching at the dinner table as i am not 'working class') is high |
| 124 | 1 | No money, no assets, no job - certainly a proletarian relationship to capital. and the lack of a paid job makes me unemployed i guess. |
| 125 | 1 | Good question! |
| 126 | 1 | I am still economically dependent on my family, but living on bare materials. |
| 127 | 1 | Based on household income. |
| 128 | 1 | I think I belong to middle class without adjectives, because I'm a computer programmer. It pays good and requires caring about doing a good job despite it not benefiting yourself. At the same time I don't have much extra money. |
| 129 | 1 | Live with parents. |
| 130 | 1 | my mom is a single mother of three and works as a waitress and I am unemployed and a student. |
| 131 | 1 | I'm wealthy but not reach, not yet. |
| 132 | 1 | I work in a small shop for the minimum wage... |
| 133 | 1 | I wash cars in dealership lots & live far below poverty level. I'm working class & poor. I have no pride in being working class. Fuck, I don't wanna work at all! One day I WILL break free! |
| 134 | 1 | My parents have a fair amount of disposable income and are able to occasionally (although not fully) help support me financially, if needed. |
| 135 | 1 | combination of factors - we're well below the poverty line, but partly through choice of careers/lifestyle |
| 136 | 1 | All of the jobs available are one I cannot ethically agree with, so all my income and sustenance is temporary/"under the table," scavenged, donated or bartered. |
| 137 | 1 | College degree, yet lack of wealth. |
| 138 | 1 | I don't have a job, and I'm happier that way. |
| 139 | 1 | I do manual labor for a living: bike mechanics and house cleaning. It's hard work that doesn't pay well. Also, I grew up receiving public benefits in a single-parent home where my mom worked fast-food, so I have a very strong identification with the working class. At the same time, I have a bachelor's degree from a prestigious university and will be starting law school in the fall...at that point (and now) I have middle-class opportunities and will eventually have an income that can pay my bi |
| 140 | 1 | Being transgendered I do not fit the status quo for the white ruling class of America. Even though I am highly skilled in my field of telecommunications, I am routinely passed over for promotion and recently fired due to my sexual orientation. Through travelling I have also seen the damage our current capitalist system has done to the vast majority of people around the world. I also saw the damage that the pursuit of power does to the personal and family lives of people. Combine all the a |
| 141 | 1 | no money, no own place to live, but quite high education |
| 142 | 1 | Well because i am not exactly whealty but i am not a working class member either |
| 143 | 1 | Lots of professionals and academics on my mother's side, but I'm second-generation downwardly mobile and don't stand to inherit anything from relatives. I went to college but I don't have any sustainable way to avoid wage labor, especially given the current economy here in the US. I have been doing clerical and factory work for years. You can cut the class lines in a number of directions but on most days I figure I'm just a very fortunate member of the working class, and it doesn't feel forced t |
| 144 | 1 | I am an academic. I make virtually no money but I have an advanced degree and a white-collar job. |
| 145 | 1 | I'm working a high paid software engineering job, but my partner is still under education to be a hair dresser. |
| 146 | 1 | The range of resources and opportunities available to me is indicative of upper-middle class status, I believe. |
| 147 | 1 | because we gross $200,000 a year in an inexpensive middle atlantic city. we're probably fooling ourselves, but it assauges the anomie. |
| 148 | 1 | The economic level and source |
| 149 | 1 | I have a job that allows me to earn as much as the regular worker but with more flexibility; I do not live hand-to-mouth i.e. not have to worry about my next paycheck, next meal, etc; I have a roof over my head; I am able to travel occasionally - I am by no means struggling. |
| 150 | 1 | I don't have a serious job. I'm just messing around and enjoying myself. |
| 151 | 1 | While I'm not exactly wealthy (I made $30K last year), I grew up in an upper middle class, intellectually-oriented family (my parents were both professors), and I have a master's degree. My income is more a matter of choice, to a certain extent - I've spent the last few years working for radical environmental nonprofits, where the pay is relatively low, but where I believe in the work. But my cultural background is definitely upper middle class. |
| 152 | 1 | Unwilling to be a corporate tool. |
| 153 | 1 | Generally I identify as poor because of my current economic situation. However, I will be teaching high school the upcoming school year (august) and economically would identify as lower middle class. Yet being "working class" is in my blood, as in my set behaviors as being raised in a family in which both parents were union members (UFCW, Postal Union) though they thought both unions were pretty horrible. I was raised to be hard working, care for others and a hatred for the rich. |
| 154 | 1 | I'm unemployed. |
| 155 | 1 | My lifestyle fits in the "living paycheck to paycheck" category |
| 156 | 1 | Not rich and never will be but not poor on the other hand either and do own luxury goods. |
| 157 | 1 | Because of what work I do, relations to means of production etc. |
| 158 | 1 | US citizen, earning taxable income in excess of $90k per, yet not management. |
| 159 | 1 | I think I belong to this class because I'm what I like to call downwardly mobile by choice... I could have chosen paths which allowed me to make a lot of money and have a lot of status but decided not to. I'm still a student, so in that sense I see myself as existing in this space between my parents' class and my own class. |
| 160 | 1 | My parents make over $150,000 yearly, own three homes all bought by them, and even though I have cut myself off from my parents to start out on my own, I'm an only child and inheritor. |
| 161 | 1 | Income and job type |
| 162 | 1 | If I got a job with my skills, I would be the one getting hired and fired. I have to shoplift, not as a 'racical lifestyle choice' but as a matter of survival. |
| 163 | 1 | I am poor and unemployed, my roots are in the working class, but i no longer spend my time working as a wage slave. I spend my life hunting/gathering/scavenging/living. So my experience is of being broke as fuck, but finding ways to put food on the table without working for someone else, and choosing that instead of construction work. |
| 164 | 1 | I am a teacher and my husband is unemployed at the moment |
| 165 | 1 | Because i am part of the working class. I'm selling myself to make very little in return. Barely enough to make ends meet. |
| 166 | 1 | Because im a poor student |
| 167 | 1 | Because I was laid off almost a year ago and have been unemployed for a good chunk of that time and have little to no savings. |
| 168 | 1 | Well... I work in a "health food store", I make about $7,000/year. I have school debts (that I will never pay). I have two children 2 & 3 years old. I don't possess anything really. Maybe some inheritance on my dad's side, but it might be taken by the governement (re. the school loans) On the other hand, I live in a collective that allow me to have a wonderful quality of life without much money. So... I live real well too and I know it. |
| 169 | 1 | My income doesn't allow for many extras. |
| 170 | 1 | It's difficult to say, becouse it depend on many factors. |
| 171 | 1 | i can't find any job for 1 year and i'm eating/living from my fammily's wages |
| 172 | 1 | Because in order to live (fulfill my basic needs - such as place for live, water+food, and some ´spiritual´ and entertainment needs) i do not have any option expect to sell my working force (be it even my knowledge) and because I can not, as well as majority, easilly excape wage slavery. Because I think, in the sense of relationship (what capitalism is)that there exist only dichotomy/two poles of class relationships - workers and capitalist. The other options you left are in my interpretation wo |
| 173 | 1 | explained above. :) |
| 174 | 1 | I make a good amount of money, but due to taxes I live check to check. |
| 175 | 1 | According to the distinctions in the list It'd be more accurate to list me as poor or unemployed. But in the context of talking about Anarchism I consider myself Working Class because I am not in the ruling class and my material interests are those of other working class people and opposed to those of the ruling class. I also think that If I wanted to think about class in social and cultural terms then I am working class because of my family, my upbringing, my peers, and my environment. |
| 176 | 1 | my dad is a corrections officer in a labor union, his paycheck is all we live on. its not very much... |
| 177 | 1 | well, no access to means of productions, doing mostly manual jobs.. |
| 178 | 1 | I have university education. |
| 179 | 1 | I sometimes wear a white collar but made $20,000 last year, and I am not middle or upper management. |
| 180 | 1 | cuz i dont make jack shit for a living and pay rent. |
| 181 | 1 | I believe I belong to the class labeled "poor or unemployed" because I am currently unemployed. So, ya know, it just sort of fits somehow. |
| 182 | 1 | I consider myself partly (culturally) underclass because I am connected and accountable to that side of my family i.e. I have to deal with my Dads violence and poverty, helping cousins and siblings out with money, places to stay etc.My Dad is abusive and my little sisters are in and out of child welfare. I consider that being in touch with this world reduces my privilege. Also many of my characteristics (loud, out of control, traumatised, lack of confidence) I have inherited through my upbringng |
| 183 | 1 | I have an office job, and make decent money, but I still barely make ends meet. |
| 184 | 1 | because i don't make much money and haven't moved out of poverty yet. |
| 185 | 1 | Parents jobs and income. |
| 186 | 1 | Two incomes, own our own house. |
| 187 | 1 | I work on a university campus as an office coordinator. While I think I fall within a broadly defined working class, my job skills/educational background and relative control over my workplace probably differentiate me from the majority of the working class. |
| 188 | 1 | i dont own property and i dont hook for capitalism and militarism |
| 189 | 1 | I currently live off of my student loans and grants. I am currently seeking work because i have nearly depleted all of my student loan and grant money and still need to pay rent over the summer months. My parents are currently living off of unemployment after my father was laid off two years ago. They also live off whatever my mother makes cleaning houses for the elderly and are also receiving food stamps. |
| 190 | 1 | I work and go to school. i work to pay for everything. i live comfortably. |
| 191 | 1 | Not sure. I'm unemployed but I'm a student living at home with my parents. |
| 192 | 1 | Because I make less than 16,000 a year. |
| 193 | 1 | How much I make from working. |
| 194 | 1 | Professional job which requires masters third level education. Supervisory role in work. |
| 195 | 1 | i earn hourly wage, and own none of the instruments of my labor. |
| 196 | 1 | with a jewish backround you have a colectiv identity, especially cause of the shoa. so you have a stong comunity (doesn´t matter if you are religious or not). and in this culture/religion education is realy basic. on the other hand ostracism starts in school and works also in jobs. so it is often, that you will have problems to get a job (even in educated and left wing surroundings). antisemitism still works (as a german "jew" you are an alien and for shure you will be responsible for every bad |
| 197 | 1 | I work 8-4 as a low voltage electrician for 11.50 an hour. I have no say in what myself or my other co-workers do and have to follow whatever my boss tells me. Anyone who is a wage slave falls into this class. |
| 198 | 1 | I have a white collar job, but it doesn't pay a heck of a lot. Paycheck to paycheck, mostly. Still, I'm able to earn enough to live comfortably and enjoy a few luxuries here and there. |
| 199 | 1 | Because I earn a wage, and am not in a position at work where I have the administrative or coercive power over anyone else (cant hire or fire, no management powers etc) |
| 200 | 1 | I am unemployed and have no savings so am not very materially wealthy (so almost ticked the unemployed box), but I have inhereted a legacy of priveledged education, experiences and an identity which opens a lot of doors for me because of my upbringing. In addition I have the support of my family to fall back on should I ever need it. |
| 201 | 1 | because i do not own means of production enough to get income from other peoples work |
| 202 | 1 | I teach college part time with not a big income. |
| 203 | 1 | Because I does not earn what I would consider to be a living wage. Because I am not a manager nor do I have the ability to hire or fire other people. |
| 204 | 1 | I work. Make good enough pay, but that's due to a militant shopfloor, although we do sometimes have to pressure our union reps a bit. |
| 205 | 1 | My father is a plastic surgeon. |
| 206 | 1 | cause i don't have the motivation to become upper or ruling class. |
| 207 | 1 | Because I am poor and unemployed? |
| 208 | 1 | My parents have both held relatively low lever public sector white collar jobs. We live in an affluent area and relatively comfortable in terms of income. |
| 209 | 1 | Because I have to work for a living. |
| 210 | 1 | I'm still living with my parents and going to shcool, whoever once I've finished and if I go to university I'd probably class myself as Lower Middle, although that still depends if I get a job linked to my degree, rather then doing something completely different. |
| 211 | 1 | Qualified but unemployed. Economically working class, obviously, but since you're using sociological categories, I like pasta and can't drink instant coffee. As I'm not Italian, that makes me middle class. |
| 212 | 1 | Because of unemployment rates, and lack of cash flow. |
| 213 | 1 | I have a well-paying job but no net worth and not a very stable home life. |
| 214 | 1 | Always difficult to answer this question. Because I earned no capital but and have to sell my work ability to live but I have access to jobs and studies that are/could be placed for the middle class salary, and not unfortunatly accessible for all classes. |
| 215 | 1 | Parents unemployed, house lost. Working entry-level sales. |
| 216 | 1 | I am currently not willing to abuse the capital I do have to 'rise' but am unwilling to go lower as life is a struggle enough. |
| 217 | 1 | I benefit from the accumulated social capital of my upper class background, depend considerably on my parent's income/resources, attended a privileged/elite university, do not have to work to pay for school/life, and have held jobs mostly in the nonprofit sector (not service/industrial jobs). |
| 218 | 1 | A combination of a bad socio-economic atmosphere and a lack of initiative. |
| 219 | 1 | Because I believe that the middle class reflects certain values (egalitarianism, support of those less fortunate) that I share. There are always those less fortunate than myself - and that makes me middle class. |
| 220 | 1 | Currently a college student. Shows privilege, but I am scrapping by and don't have any intention or probability of having "good" job. |
| 221 | 1 | No job, No money, No assets, but reasonably happy. |
| 222 | 1 | I'm a Master student with a part time job. Your class scheme is to general to make much sense though. |
| 223 | 1 | Heart defect |
| 224 | 1 | I didn't have to pay for school, so i don't have loans. However, i work a labor job and am accruing a skill set. I'm middle class because of my lack of debt, but lower middle class because my ability to move upward in class status is hindered by lack of vocational opportunity. I'm defining class based on my job, but it's important. I also rent an apartment and have no car. Fuck, i don't know. |
| 225 | 1 | I only attended a few quarters of community college and have no degree. I'm not a skilled tradesmen, I've pretty much only worked entry level service jobs, or have been paid to be a medical research subject (a lab rat), or have done sex work. Right now i haven't worked in months and am barely scraping buy doing odd jobs and occasionally pawning things. |
| 226 | 1 | Living comfortably enough. |
| 227 | 1 | Mostly its privilege. I don't have problems finding a job, and a lot of that has to do with me being a white male who speaks with a midwest acent. |
| 228 | 1 | Because of the amount of money I make and the quality of my job. |
| 229 | 1 | I have no money. |
| 230 | 1 | We are middle class, but not wealthy. We have enough money, but we cannot be extravagant. |
| 231 | 1 | I'm currently unemployed. However,I would say that say I'm an unemployed working class person (using an anarchist communist economic definition), but lower middle class if using a sociological definition eg; education, employment history. |
| 232 | 1 | I'm a student below the poverty line. |
| 233 | 1 | While I have access to my parents wealth it is heavily mediated. In almost all cases I subsist primarily on my own income. My work does not put me in a management position, but is within the tech sector so pays similarly-to-better than many white-collar positions. It's worth noting that I subscribe to the "if-I-have-a-wage/salary-I'm-working-class" view of class relations, but the questions appear to be oriented towards income-breakdowns so I answered in that spirit. |
| 234 | 1 | We're better off than our parents, able to live comfortably, but certainly not free financial worries or obligations. |
| 235 | 1 | I'm still a student so I still associate my class status with my parents. |
| 236 | 1 | I am still technically under the patronage of my parents. |
| 237 | 1 | I work in a precarious job as a journalist, just half a day, with a shity (no)wage. Looking at that, I'm "poor or unemployed", but I'm studying to be a teacher, and I think it makes me a lower middle class worker. Maybe an average (working class) should be the correct answer? |
| 238 | 1 | I have a high paying media job and I'm in some kind of managing position. I have relative freedom over my working hours. |
| 239 | 1 | i cobble together a precarious labor via a multitude of tasks, have little to no savings or economic security |
| 240 | 1 | I'm working in the agriculture. I'm trying not to be exploited by work because it's hard. But this class is the most important to live in our earth. |
| 241 | 1 | currently a doctoral student. make less than $20,000 |
| 242 | 1 | Personal income is nil, as I intern for an environmental non-profit. Also, I am choosing to live in a small, rural town, paying for only basic necessities. Housing markets increasingly marginalize poorer populations. I have chosen to network in order to attain a cheap roof over my head. |
| 243 | 1 | I don't make a lot of money, but I have enough to get by. |
| 244 | 1 | My family is well off, but neither of my parents manage or employ anyone, as was suggested to be the criteria for upper middle class. |
| 245 | 1 | living with parents |
| 246 | 1 | Because I am unemployed, and my disabilities keep me very nearly unemployable. |
| 247 | 1 | The money I make and the education I was privileged with. |
| 248 | 1 | I study medicine, I am not hungry, I am able to fulfill my everyday needs. Still I can't satisfy all my desires, I have difficulties finding a home. |
| 249 | 1 | I'm a student who lives off of an allowance every month. I do have a minimum wage, part-time job as well. |
| 250 | 1 | Upbringing, mannerisms, how I spend money and some of my views about the world. I have some increased mobility but am working a job and still in an income bracket that reinforces that. |
| 251 | 1 | I'm not a physical laborer but I still derive the majority of my income from wages. |
| 252 | 1 | Little money, but university-educated. |
| 253 | 1 | I'm a student so I haven't entered the workforce yet. |
| 254 | 1 | My dad was underemployed til I was about 5, then after an accident at work was on workers comp and has been since. My mom hasn't worked in years, she is disabled, and recieves a slamm support payment for that. I grew up in a trailer park, though now live in a housing duplex. I have some luxuries, but those have been sparce and hitting on our finances. |
| 255 | 1 | It's one of the opressed classes but most of its members still do not see it and aspire to become rich (what is imposibble in capitalism) |
| 256 | 1 | As a high school student I regularly receive about 200 American dollars from the Danish state every. Furthermore, I live at home and have only few monthly expenses. |
| 257 | 1 | Don't own means of production. 'Peasant' might be appropriate as I have a house and some land. |
| 258 | 1 | I'm privileged by a college degree and the opportunity to make upper-middle-class money, but in fact I earn more in the lower end of the middle class range or maybe the upper end of the lower class range and my lifestyle more resembles that. |
| 259 | 1 | I grew up in a big family, my father has always been the bread winner, promoted to upper management only a few years ago. I am still dependent on my parents, and we had a high income just before the recession, and we are again struggling financially. |
| 260 | 1 | i´am locksmith |
| 261 | 1 | By choice. |
| 262 | 1 | This article: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.html |
| 263 | 1 | My income is a combination of day labor as an assistant gardener (c.30 hours a week) and academic teaching (4.5 hours a week with no permanent contract or benefits) |
| 264 | 1 | I barely make it from month to month, despite being careful with expenses and living in subsidized housing. |
| 265 | 1 | I'm from a lower middle class family, living in a lower middle class family. |
| 266 | 1 | Parent's wealth, not yet independent |
| 267 | 1 | I have worked numerous jobs most of my childhood and adult life, and though I am precarious, I continue to not really fall into the "unemployed" class, but more of a "poor working class" or the "precariat." I don't own property, I don't profit from other's precarity, lack of property, or labor, and I am deemed worthless by creditors and banks for my lack of loans or credit. This keeps me clear from any minglings with the middle class. I also don't care to mingle with the middle class socially, s |
| 268 | 1 | Because I work. |
| 269 | 1 | Mother's hard work over the past 17 years. |
| 270 | 1 | Because I have studied at University (no degree, though) and to-day work part time as a writer. |
| 271 | 1 | I designate myself as working class in accordance to the classification of class as related to income earnings. I earn less than 15,000 per year, and am therefore in the bottom 20% of earners. |
| 272 | 1 | Capitalism is a bitch and has chains |
| 273 | 1 | I live paycheck to paycheck. |
| 274 | 1 | By education, by what I was doing. Feel solidarity with all working people. |
| 275 | 1 | I am an unemployed, disabled, medically retired Iraq War veteran against the war and I live on my friend's couch. |
| 276 | 1 | Because I still live with my parents - and they haven't changed social class. |
| 277 | 1 | Although I'm not a manager myself or make much money - I have social capital, educated, and not systematically excluded from taking part in these activities if I choose to do so. |
| 278 | 1 | I make 280 dollars an hour for modeling, but I only work a few hours a week. |
| 279 | 1 | My dad got a series of promotions and my mom became a teacher |
| 280 | 1 | i refuse to continue the game, basically. i've done many things, tho, including working in publishing in the past. |
| 281 | 1 | Have enough on a single income to be paying bills, buying food and clothes etc for the kids, and can save up for expensive toys (computers etc) or car services. And we own a house. |
| 282 | 1 | Because I am unemployed |
| 283 | 1 | Because I have university studies, I'm heading for post-graduate Studies, I'm not heading for a big paid career (for university studies, it's a precarious domain) I don't having ownership of anything. |
| 284 | 1 | I live with a single parent. They have a white collar job but they we are not middle class. |
| 285 | 1 | Because I have a job that requires a college education, and doesn't require any real physical labor. I train writing consultants at a college Writers' Center and work with student writing as well. Other than that, I'm at a desk. |
| 286 | 1 | In comparison to my parents, I earned a BA degree and am currently in school, which gives me social privilege but not so much economic, but still I am sure I would be hired more quickly than someone who had no formal schooling. Though, I have been unemployed for a year, I have not gone hungry because my siblings - who are employed help by housing me while I attend school and go more into debt for it. |
| 287 | 1 | I don't have a job. I am broke. |
| 288 | 1 | because of my lowrate income and the instability of my working status |
| 289 | 1 | Because of relation to means of production. |
| 290 | 1 | I am a naturalist. Class is but a human construct which causes the majority of human suffering and misery. |
| 291 | 1 | Id say im working class in terms of economic class because i think there is only two classes of note, prole and owner. Also, im an unemployed student living off a student loan. University is hardly an elite institution these days, just glorified training. The difference between my politics degree paid for by state loans and the plumbing certificate someone get at a college paid for by the dole office is that their certificate is useful and they're not in a ton of debt. Finally, im poor be |
| 292 | 1 | I don't define myself by others perception of class, nor does my job or salary define me. |
| 293 | 1 | educated, but no job and no money. |
| 294 | 1 | compared to friends who are in lower classes to me my parents have two cars and a year ago we were able to afford a extension on our house so this i think is a symptom of middle class lifestyle but i think i'm lower middle class seeing as i work in a low paid job and my parents don't have managerial positions. we also still have to save for things and university is going to be a real struggle to pay for. |
| 295 | 1 | Because even though I am white collar, I don't make as much money as my parents did at my age, nor do I have the professional seniority that they had at my age. |
| 296 | 1 | At the moment, I am currently unemployed that's why, but when I am employed, the work is precarious and low paying. I have never made more than 11 USD an hour. I do, on the other hand, consider myself working class and think that the poor and unemployed are part of the working class as well. The way the options are seems like a sociological position as far as class is concerned. |
| 297 | 1 | Because I am unemployed and poor |
| 298 | 1 | Both parents now have non-labor white-collar jobs yet have low salaries and no savings or retirement. Also no stock, 'wealth,' etc. |
| 299 | 1 | I live with my father who is working |
| 300 | 1 | Will still have to work throughout my life to be able to live it, but can rely on family savings to help with university and rent if I need to. Well educated, nice neighbourhood. |
| 301 | 1 | I have a university degree and am in graduate school. |
| 302 | 1 | Until I leave for college next year, I live with my parents right now, and while we live relatively averagely, we live this way in Santa Barbara, California, in which you can't really have parents who are anything below "upper middle class." |
| 303 | 1 | I think that the only class distinctions are ruling and working and so I consider myself working class to the extent that I will never be a capitalist profiteer! However I believe class is now also an identity and in some ways I agree with Bourdieu's notion of cultural and social capital, I think I am privileged with my cultural and social capital which I would say is traditionally middle class - I am well read and went to the theatre as a child, my class identity is not denigrated in the media |
| 304 | 1 | I have almost always worked as a blue collar worker and always as a wage worker |
| 305 | 1 | I work for a wage in the retail industry |
| 306 | 1 | i am disabled. |
| 307 | 1 | I work for a minimum wage, don't own any property, and do not have a college education. |
| 308 | 1 | Purely based on income. Our household yearly income is approximately $90,000. |
| 309 | 1 | thats who the class i identify with |
| 310 | 1 | Salary/Mobility |
| 311 | 1 | Hard work ethic |
| 312 | 1 | I don't like management. "Real" work is done by the layer below them. I like doing "real" work. |
| 313 | 1 | I dislike the concept of class and would like the classification of people to end, and since what is called class is mostly self-identification I identify as having none. |
| 314 | 1 | I work for a wage, I rent an apartment, I identify with the objective interests of the proletariat. |
| 315 | 1 | It's a choice: I have remained at the poverty level for almost all of my adult life. i want to spend my time and energy towards activism and writing and reading, not doing shitty jobs that drain me of energy or mental clarity. |
| 316 | 1 | My parents are intellectuals who work at the university. They are well-paid, and benefit off of the exploitation of the working class, yet they are still exploited themselves since they do not own their means of production (in this case probably the university). |
| 317 | 1 | I have a blue collar job, I'm not a boss, I don't own any means of production |
| 318 | 1 | I earn below the average industrial wage in Ireland, yet am well educated, with a mastesrs, culturally I am middle class - in that I can move with ease between different social settings, I have extensive social capital though am economically weak, despite that due to my parents and family background I have the resources to be looking at a house purchase etc. |
| 319 | 1 | I have college education yet I earn the same as a unskilled civil servant. |
| 320 | 1 | Because of the intersection of my education (tertiary, but not university), my wealth (not inherited and essentially bond-slaved), my race (white African, thus traditionally high), and my function within state/capital/social heirarchy (relatively low, but a producer of intellectual knowlege, so somewhere in the middle). |
| 321 | 1 | I think your whole class structure part of this survey is completely off. It doesn't give any room for contradiction, like the fact unionized miners make more than many white collar workers. |
| 322 | 1 | I am attending a university and I am able to pay the bills with relative ease because of federally granted loans and family aid. |
| 323 | 1 | I am unemployed, though I may have a temporary job soon, I will most likely be unemployed for as long as I can survive |
| 324 | 1 | Because I am do not own the means of production nor to I manage them. |
| 325 | 1 | Based upon your description - white collar yet not very wealthy. |
| 326 | 1 | parent's jobs; i.e. chemist for a major drug corp. and owner of a lawncare corporation |
| 327 | 1 | Because, contrary to my father, I'm the wage-earner and mostly do manual works. |
| 328 | 1 | I'm disabled and haven't worked a job in 4 years. |
| 329 | 1 | Living in a foreign contry being exploited working black in crappy restaraunts as i dont have dutch as a language and getting steadily more into debt in the last 9 months to a year. |
| 330 | 1 | IWW member, small business owner (collective) |
| 331 | 1 | Because I own no property and have to sell my labour to survive. |
| 332 | 1 | I'm a student in France who needn't work to pay his studies. |
| 333 | 1 | I make enough money for a halfway decent lifestyle in a job that involves neither manual labor (working class) nor enforcing the will of the state (ruling class). |
| 334 | 1 | Because I sit in an office and move bits around all day. Seriously, WTF? |
| 335 | 1 | mind over money |
| 336 | 1 | class consciousness and the above "ranking" is more of an income based one (i.e. sociological). I am a wage labourer, hence I am working class. |
| 337 | 1 | that's an odd question. |
| 338 | 1 | I am underemploeyd and occiasonnaly have to subsist on social assistance i.e. unemployment insurance. |
| 339 | 1 | I don't have a job and have limited money. |
| 340 | 1 | Because I fit the "white collar yet not very wealthy" definition you just gave. Now, this said, I could also have fitted at different moment in my life in the "por or unemployed" category as my white-collar dad was on welfare during four years when I was a kid and I was my self on wellfare for roughly the same amount of time as a young, droped out of school, adult. |
| 341 | 1 | Multiple reasons,you become wealthy as a result of one or a combination of three reason: privilege, luck, or dedication. I wasn't privileged, haven't been lucky, and so far haven't cared enough to dedicate myself to becoming wealthy |
| 342 | 1 | i am studing to work in af kindergarten ore socialwork |
| 343 | 1 | high salary, high education |
| 344 | 1 | Because I live well and generally get to do what I want. I work part time hours but spend frugally. |
| 345 | 1 | don't have much money,don't need much money?i can help myself with alternative,creative ideas where others need money for to solve problems |
| 346 | 1 | Live in an apartment and go to university |
| 347 | 1 | I work for a wage. Not a very good one either. |
| 348 | 1 | I make more money than my parents |
| 349 | 1 | Based on income and wealth, opportunities |
| 350 | 1 | Because the current system here, capitalism, is a dead end piece of shit and only people born rich will be rich. |
| 351 | 1 | I enjoy the work I do, but it's funded by taxes which is money stolen from people. Government didn't earn the money by providing great service nor meeting demand for the service. However, there is no real market competition for the job I do so there is not really an alternative employer. Market competition would be nice for everything. |
| 352 | 1 | I work for a wage, living paycheck to paycheck. |
| 353 | 1 | My parents have money and I could ask them for help if I really needed it. However I am struggling to try and support myself independently, but being trans and being in this economy, it's not exactly easy. |
| 354 | 1 | I am a ph.d candidate, make less than 16k/yr and live like a pauper, but I have the privileges of travel, education, and familial support if my situation ever gets truly desperate. Given this, it seems to make sense that I am in the same 'class' as my parents, if not a little higher because of my level of education. If we're talking systematically why am I in this class, that's a whole 'nother can of worms. |
| 355 | 1 | Because I don't have a job. |
| 356 | 1 | I am a full time student at University and am raking in debt |
| 357 | 1 | Wage and job conditions. |
| 358 | 1 | Because I'm not part of the bourgeoisie nor the petit-bourgeoisie. So, I'm from the working class but had access to university. I get paid a salary in exchange for my labour force -though quite decently in comparison with the lower wages but still...-. |
| 359 | 1 | From your e.g.s |
| 360 | 1 | oppression of the working class leads to exploitation and the perpetuation of economic inequality |
| 361 | 1 | Connected into political parties, well educated, high income family and ease of high income work. Lots of property. |
| 362 | 1 | I work for a wage and can't afford higher education, health care, or etc. My family has always been working class. My mother worked in factories in Spain, my dad was from the Ghetto in NY. I do not own any property, not a home, not a car, nor a business. |
| 363 | 1 | I have been able to consistently increase my wealth and help my friends get out of debt and increase their wealth, because I provide services that have value to other individuals in society. |
| 364 | 1 | Becuase thats the level that my work is at. |
| 365 | 1 | Father's job and the general affluence of the area in which I live |
| 366 | 1 | I'm a students, I don't make an awful lot of money. I don't have a job. I have lots of student debt. |
| 367 | 1 | Because I work for a living, dont employ anybody else and don't live off any property I own. |
| 368 | 1 | I think I belong to the "poor or unemployed" class because I don't have a job. |
| 369 | 1 | I'm below the poverty line. Comparatively poor my American standards. I live within my means. |
| 370 | 1 | Because even though I'm now unemployed, I completed a university degree a few years ago and expect to eventually get a white collar job (teacher, to be precise). |
| 371 | 1 | the only resource i can apeal to as an inmigrant, as a person that doesn't have a professional title of any kind, is to sell my time, my energy, at avery cheap price for other people who happen to own the machines, the trucks, the industries.Then there is the manager, or that worker that is always among workers but has his privileges and a better pay, and the rest is well known story, for the last down the hill, the ones that get all the shit, the money is never enough, sometimes forced to work |
| 372 | 1 | my mom made around 30 to 40k most my my life. working in comp. and benfits for a hotel management firm. this happens to be around median wage in most states. my dad is out of the picture. we never struggled to have meals or some modest belongings, nor did we ever own property or more than a leased economy vehicle. the suburbs around where i grew had a healthy peppering of upper middle class kids and the predominantly white public high school i attended was considered one of the best in the st |
| 373 | 1 | As a student, I'm currently poor and unemployed - however, in a few years I will most probably belong to the Upper Middle Class. |
| 374 | 1 | I believe it is partially due to my lifestyle choices - I chose my career because it was something I enjoyed and was good at, not because it could make me a lot of money. I think it is also partially due to the socio-economic order in our society which systematically moves wealth from the lower and middle classes to the upper class. This makes it difficult for people to rise out of the lower classes. If I had chosen a career that was more lucrative, I may have moved further into the upper middle |
| 375 | 1 | Because sometimes we have to cut our luxuries unlike well off people. |
| 376 | 1 | I work for a living and am not management. I am a worker therefore working class. Its not to do with wealth but position. |
| 377 | 1 | society put me there!!! |
| 378 | 1 | I'm unemployed with no money coming in from anywhere. |
| 379 | 1 | Because I work for a living, have no power to hire or fire, own no capital more extensive than my computer and some gardening tools, and scratch by on an income of about US $10,000 a year. |
| 380 | 1 | income level, consumption habits, desire not to engage in bourgeois consumerist lifestyle |
| 381 | 1 | The type of work that I do and the level of income. However, I am also support somewhat by my family, so this allows me to maintain a higher standard of living than I could on my income. |
| 382 | 1 | based on my relationship to the means of production |
| 383 | 1 | Pay check to pay check but not in debt |
| 384 | 1 | Because it is the only class that I can feasibly be in at this time. |
| 385 | 1 | White collar, not very wealthy by your own definition |
| 386 | 1 | I'm unemployed and can't get a job where I live. |
| 387 | 1 | My Mother Works In A Retail Shop. My (Non Birth) Father Had The Oppertunity To Attend Art College, But Took A year Out To Work And Travel. He Never Got The Oppertunity To Travel And Ended Up Stuck In Retail Aswell. He Now Works As An Area Manager For The Same Company. There's Not A Lot I Can Say On Why I Think I'm Middle Class? I'm Not Rich, Nor Are My Parents Or Family...But There's Many People Who Are Worse Off Money Wise. |
| 388 | 1 | Because there is a two tier class system and I sure as fuck aren't in the other one. |
| 389 | 1 | I'm a student and am upwardly mobile. And while I have very little money myself, I have the security of my parents to fall back on. |
| 390 | 1 | Parents are working class, I work at a pizza place with no control or influence over the means of production. |
| 391 | 1 | Because I work and I've got class. |
| 392 | 1 | I am a student with constant problems with money, doing occasional working class jobs (cosntruction), but with some support from parrents. |
| 393 | 1 | Cause of my incomes |
| 394 | 1 | Because I am not very poor but without being sure that I can get a descent job in the future that makes me neither a working class but neither a middle. |
| 395 | 1 | Observation |
| 396 | 1 | I am a University Student. |
| 397 | 1 | I went to college after high school, now I'm in debt and get paid minimum wage at two part time jobs. I've never been able to purchase a car so I rely on my feet because there isn't public transportation where I live. I also am not a home owner. |
| 398 | 1 | I have an BBA and MBA and a comfortable job. |
| 399 | 1 | I don't have 'a lot' of money - but between financial aid and scholarships I am doing okay. |
| 400 | 1 | relationship to means of production - wages earned - lifestyle |
| 401 | 1 | I am a student in college while not working. |
| 402 | 1 | im unemployed. and basically travelling around living off financial aid for school. (i dislike the institution and what it means to the status quo, but its the route most excusable in my inellectual and personal ideological pursuits) |
| 403 | 1 | I am working as a carpenter/furnituremaker, on a wage basis. before I have worked in factories, restaurants, distribution centre. Always on a temp. contract. |
| 404 | 1 | because I threatened to fire my personal assistant when she stopped sucking my willy |
| 405 | 1 | I work for a wage and don't own the tools I use. |
| 406 | 1 | I am a student in a relatively good public university. My parents are partially supporting me, and I have a large merit scholarship. |
| 407 | 1 | because im currently anemployed |
| 408 | 1 | no jobs to be had. i'm living off people for a year,now. can't get my head above water. |
| 409 | 1 | Management job. |
| 410 | 1 | I am a recently graduated college student. There are barely any jobs in my field because it is so specialized. I work in customer service/hospitality/retail. |
| 411 | 1 | Because everyone in my family are workers, not employers. |
| 412 | 1 | I don't have much money, but I get by. |
| 413 | 1 | I belong in this class because I am a teenager with a part time job that is not in any way a middle or upper class job (Gas dock)and most of my family alse have either lower middle class or working class jobs. |
| 414 | 1 | I disagree with the implied definition of class in the survey. I think the distinctions the survey makes are important, but I view the working class as all who live primarily from the sale of their labor power. |
| 415 | 1 | I am currently an unemployed university student. Despite my above average qualifications and multiple submissions I have been unable to obtain a job (or even an interview) and have no formal income making me economically insecure. However, I am able to sustain myself through a fortnightly allowance from my parents along with various 'one-off' jobs. Such means for support I think excludes me from "Working Class" or "Poor". |
| 416 | 1 | Poor but educated, can fit in upper middle class spheres but don't actually have the money. Can also fit in with working class/poor, but it's sort of insincere because I have upward mobility. |
| 417 | 1 | Everyone belongs to the working class, we all work whether its manual or intellectual labour |
| 418 | 1 | mental illness |
| 419 | 1 | I can't even afford my own home, despite a college degree. It is pathetic! |
| 420 | 1 | Because i have to work to obtain a wage. |
| 421 | 1 | Two incomes, no kids. |
| 422 | 1 | unemployment, can't find work |
| 423 | 1 | I'm more poor than my parents! |
| 424 | 1 | I am a wage worker in the service sector (Starbucks) despite having some higher education; I would love to quit this job but I have a huge fear of unemployment because of the job market. My mother and father have also become working class over the past decade; my father became unable to find further white collar work, and both have since become full and part-time workers. |
| 425 | 1 | I am a college student surviving on financial aid and food stamps plus some occasional part time employment. I rarely have extra money beyond providing for my family's (severely disabled wife and child) essentials. |
| 426 | 1 | I work a day job for an hourly wage. I am not salaried, and make less than average for the nation I live in. Sometimes I have a hard time making my bills. |
| 427 | 1 | Wage, living conditions |
| 428 | 1 | I work 88 hours a week and make less than retail clerks. If that doesn't qualify as working class I don't know what does. |
| 429 | 1 | I'd consider myself lower-middle class also, because 'middle class' is a psuedo-class. The least well-off (financially, economically, socially, etc) are a section of the working class given to often refuting their membership of the working class, through snobbery or ignorance. My family and I have never been very well-off. We have extremely limited in our social and economic power, and have never occupied 'Professional' jobs. Our political power is limited by convention to the vote, althoug |
| 430 | 1 | i am well educated skilled and articulate technicaly i am underclass as i have no home no permanent income oralso i am not dependant on the state and have a wide cicle of freinds i am upper class underclass |
| 431 | 1 | I have a good job as a trade union full timer. I earn enough money not to have to worry most of the time and to help out my family when i need to. My job allows me a lot of freedom to choose how to work and I get treated with respect. The experiance is so completely different to what i grew up with that i have no hesitation in saying that I have moved class dramatically. |
| 432 | 1 | i work for a living, don't make much money, but i do get money from my family too. so my income is lower middle class, but my life-style if more middle class. also i live communally so that helps to soften economic ups and downs. |
| 433 | 1 | I have no Job at this time |
| 434 | 1 | I am currently in a state of unemployment and have never made more than 23k/year. |
| 435 | 1 | university education, cultural tastes, friendship group, not really because of my work/ income as I am a part-time support worker with autistic adults. |
| 436 | 1 | Because I chose it |
| 437 | 1 | I work for a wage. I own no property. |
| 438 | 1 | Both parents work and are sending me to college. |
| 439 | 1 | I work as a catalog picker a warehouse. |
| 440 | 1 | I work. I barely make enough to pay the bills. I do not live in extravagance. |
| 441 | 1 | Middle income skilled tech worker |
| 442 | 1 | I did not have opportunities for advancement. I began a college education, which I did quite well at, but abandoned it because it was too expensive and I was seeing news stories in the media that were showing the benefits of such education to be dubious at best. Also it is possible I have "wasted" time engaging in political/humanistic study when I may have been more fit for scientific study. Maybe I was just on the blunt end of a population boom though and it was simply a collective fat |
| 443 | 1 | I've been out of work for two years; I suffer extreme poverty when I can't sell my labor power for wages; I haven't held onto the same job ever for as much as a solid year. |
| 444 | 1 | I don't have a job or any prospect of income nor am I seeking for one. I am a volunteer. |
| 445 | 1 | Artist/Anarchist. |
| 446 | 1 | Thrown out at 18 when both my parents lost their jobs and had a new kid. I was starting college at the time and was left with nothing. |
| 447 | 1 | based on monthly income, type of work, and living/housing conditions |
| 448 | 1 | low income, no job. |
| 449 | 1 | I am in college, which my parents are paying for with some help from grants and some from me. I have my own car, but it is over ten years old. My parents are also able to pay for several expensive summer trips for me, but they do not give me idle spending money. I need a job partly for this reason and also to contribute to the college fund. |
| 450 | 1 | I have $300,000 in debts and $20,000 annually in income. |
| 451 | 1 | I have a semi-skilled blue collar job and I identify politically and economically with those in the same situation. |
| 452 | 1 | I'm a nanny- so in the service industry. |
| 453 | 1 | Financially very prudent parents who have worked profitably all their lives still don't have enough money to protect their scientifically-skilled son from a brutal labour market and nonexistent Society. |
| 454 | 1 | In general I identify with working class (shocking, I know) but currently am severely underemployed and have been scraping by on amazingly cheap rent thanks to friends' kindness. Have a great deal of debt, which doesn't seem to factor into society's general considerations of class but maybe should. |
| 455 | 1 | Because the class interpretation derives from the inequality of our society. |
| 456 | 1 | Downward mobility. Bad choices. Mental illness. Capitalism. |
| 457 | 1 | I just started a well-paying union organizer job, but am just an apprentice, so it isn't super-high pay yet. If I keep going with it I will probably be considered middle to upper middle class, approx $90,000/year including the pay to cover travel expenses. |
| 458 | 1 | the class of survival? because that is what we all do.. Guess lower middle class would be about rightish, I have the "priviledge" of attending university, but live on the basics, earn enough to have some form of comforts. A guitar and a place to call my own, three meals a day. What is the distinction betwen working class and lower middle class? |
| 459 | 1 | i frequently do not have a job, and even when i do it is often difficult for me to make rent |
| 460 | 1 | I am a teacher |
| 461 | 1 | I don't have problem with money, and I can do some studies. |
| 462 | 1 | My father works in high paying managerial positions. |
| 463 | 1 | I was a college teacher |
| 464 | 1 | my answer has only financial meaning i do not belong to any "class" or other kind of collectivity |
| 465 | 1 | Don't have job,there are no jobs |
| 466 | 1 | Income level for my particular geographic region. |
| 467 | 1 | Education, income By the way, your circles can be indicated, but your squares cannot be indicated, so I have tried to answer your questions in the comment boxes when they are provided. |
| 468 | 1 | Because all of my friends are. |
| 469 | 1 | because i am currently a student and have no job. |
| 470 | 1 | Based on income, my education and access to information and things. |
| 471 | 1 | Not interested in much wealth |
| 472 | 1 | I am a student, but I do not like your way of distinquishing between classes. I hope it is only income-relating. Otherwise you have a weird view on classes that can not be used for anything. |
| 473 | 1 | i base this on my wage, and my profession as an unskilled worker. But since ive have the equivalent of a College exam, I have the possibility to go to university and thereby enter another class. So judge for yourself. |
| 474 | 1 | Let's go back a few questions. Anarchists need not be atheists. A devout Christian I know admitted she would gladly break human laws if it meant she was keeping her god's law. Anyhow. Your current question. I have a disability. I have limitations. Thus nobody will hire me. I'm on a government disability income and that's not very much. Therefore, poor. Oh I fake it but it means I'm up to my arse in debt. |
| 475 | 1 | i'm actually student, and it's a kind of precarious situation. |
| 476 | 1 | As a teacher, I don't earn very much money but I was able to gain an education and I have job security. My partner is a union organizer and he also does not earn a lot of money. But I also benefit, as many in my class do, from inheritance that perpetuates class distinctions. |
| 477 | 1 | I'm a public school teacher |
| 478 | 1 | I'm smarter than working class people. |
| 479 | 1 | cause i just study in a university |
| 480 | 1 | Our family works long hour jobs with low-wage outcomes, come from a labour area. |
| 481 | 1 | I work as a computer engineer, but I never went to school, I am just good at it, even thou I am not a manager, boss or a CEO I think I am a bit privileged compared with factory workers because I work as salary even thou a factory worker makes more money than I do. |
| 482 | 1 | Moved past the 9-5 world. |
| 483 | 1 | job, lifestyle |
| 484 | 1 | Because I checked my bank balance this morning and I don't have a job |
| 485 | 1 | Because I don't have money and I'm unemployed. Haha. |
| 486 | 1 | i'm still a student and has neither climbed up or down that latter. so far all i got is more debt (and knowledge that is)... |
| 487 | 1 | my husband's a plumber |
| 488 | 1 | College educated and able to get employed. |
| 489 | 1 | computer guy working at a non-profit, make a lower middle class wage. |
| 490 | 1 | do not identify with class |
| 491 | 1 | Lack of concern for my needs in the state schooling system. Also, a lack of tolerance throughout school. I am trying to improve myself. |
| 492 | 1 | from the money i take |
| 493 | 1 | Because my wife and I can pay our bills and feed our children, but can afford to do little else. I am in school currently, with hopes to improve our situation. I dislike Capitalism greatly, but I don't want to spend my entire life under financial stress. |
| 494 | 1 | meh. |
| 495 | 1 | The class relationship is complicated. I currently live outside of my natural-born society. I'm living in East Europe, but I grew up in the US. Here I have a comfortable job, but with very few hours and I live in really bad poverty. Back home in the US I would be working less professionally and harder and more for less money (as compared to the cost of living). Currently I am a student and am taking massive loans to fund it. I will be in debt for many years. These are all characteristics of work |
| 496 | 1 | Well, I would identify as working class; but since you made the distinction of "blue collar" and "white collar" between working class and lower middle class, then I put lower middle class since teachers aren't normally defined as blue collar, though I see teachers at working class. |
| 497 | 1 | I gonna have to work all my life long to survive. |
| 498 | 1 | My family owns two houses that we live in, and 3 apartments that we rent out. My parents drive a BMW. My parents and I are both college-educated, at some of the best colleges in the world. |
| 499 | 1 | I am a university student, recieving government funding and living a relatively comfortable lifestyle. |
| 500 | 1 | Because i have to sell my job to capitalist , even if don not do manual work. |
| 501 | 1 | Because of my education and background--also, I'm a graduate student. |
| 502 | 1 | I'm still living with my parents, so I have access to their resources. |
| 503 | 1 | I sell my labour. i do not own anything. |
| 504 | 1 | I would have said "upper middle class", had professionals fit in this category. I have low income in my job, but very high education attainment. This represents a contradictory, class-inconsistent location. But, still, yes. But, understood differently, I am "working class" as I work for someone else. |
| 505 | 1 | Poor wage, no trust fund. Rented accommodation. Feel uncomfortable amongst wealthy people. |
| 506 | 1 | increasing unemployment, bosses want to hire people with the minimum qualifications (unskilled workers) so that they don't have to pay them a lot of money, generally the capitalistic system that produces/creates all the problems and the increasing inequalities among social classes. |
| 507 | 1 | I don't have a job and I'm thousands of dollars in debt |
| 508 | 1 | I have a white collar job. But don't make fuch |
| 509 | 1 | Living in America, using my military college money, I don't believe that I'm poor. I have adequate shelter and food supply. But I believe that a direct route to a safe yet well paying job is obscured by college majors which do not teach efficiently, and physical danger posed by some of the more hands on jobs. Also I don't own land or have a viable business, and feel it would be really difficult for to get sufficient amounts of both because of lack of knowledge about starting either. Also because |
| 510 | 1 | Raised poor, educated fairly well, high class jobs don't sit well with me, currently unemployed but also have some business dealings. Hard to say. |
| 511 | 1 | Because I live from paycheck to paycheck and my paychecks aren't that big. |
| 512 | 1 | I belong to this class because my father and brothers were not legally allowed to work in Australia up until 2008 therefore it's been a real struggle even though I was born and raised here. As a family, we work our arses off because we have to help each other out. |
| 513 | 1 | My household income is less than $50,000 per year. |
| 514 | 1 | I have to sell my work, one way or the other. I own no property. I do not have access to health care. I work. Sometimes service jobs, some labor, some skilled labor of intellectual/technical nature. occasional project management. |
| 515 | 1 | At the time I am studying at the University, and I have NO capital and NO saved money or other kinds of economic "powers".. Neither have my family or friends. So until I finish, I am a "low class" wage earner. After I finish and maybe get a (more well-payed) job, I know it will still be in the "low" end of wages.. And maybe more important, I FEEL like working class, and will allways have the solidarity with the working class, though the term maybe has changed some times through the years.. |
| 516 | 1 | Because I bust my ass to try to keep food on the table |
| 517 | 1 | I'm unemployed. I guess you're referencing our "sociological" class. If you were referencing our material class, I'd say "working" for almost anyone who doesn't own the means of production, altho I also like the "coordinator" or "techno/bureaucratic" class as a distinction of material class society, as well. I am and will always most likely be working class. I fucking hope. |
| 518 | 1 | Hard work, my dad dropped out of college, taught himself computer programming and landed a solid steady job. |
| 519 | 1 | Although I don't face any of the serious issues faced by most people without money or assets, I don't have any money or assets. I'm a graduate student. My funding has expired. I don't have any other employment and only made a few thousand dollars last year. |
| 520 | 1 | I make just enough to survive and work more hours than I would like to work. |
| 521 | 1 | I've been a freelancer for the last decade, so my income is sporadic; moreover, I eschew membership in what I see as the merchant state's adaptation of feudalism. I've spent some time working in lower management, as has my wife; neither of us like it or want it much. |
| 522 | 1 | Due to poverty and unemployment. |
| 523 | 1 | I can't find a job but I'm not destitute because I have some support. |
| 524 | 1 | Based on where I live, friends I have, spaces I travel in, my relation to the means of production, my income. |
| 525 | 1 | I'm fairly comfortable, economically. I have no debt. |
| 526 | 1 | Work in administrative post, university educated, live with one parent. Would still say i am working class in the generla sense but as you categorise... |
| 527 | 1 | money. power. |
| 528 | 1 | I'm a storeman, i do manual labour, get paid low wages and belong to a union. |
| 529 | 1 | Wage labor |
| 530 | 1 | I get money from the state. |
| 531 | 1 | I don't work...ever. |
| 532 | 1 | Because I don't want to work for money. |
| 533 | 1 | because i'm studying, don't do wage labour, i get money from my parents and little bit from the state, i'm property less, below poverty line in austria, that would fit "poor or unemployed" perhaps, if there was not the uncertain future: the potential of becoming part of the upper middle class after finishing my studies, or becoming part of academic precarity or start/join a selforganised workplace... |
| 534 | 1 | I make as much as my parents combined. Corporate job outside of college. |
| 535 | 1 | Because I'm not very wealthy, but I'm from a white-collar background. In a more fundamental sense, I would say I am working class, since I have nothing to sell but my labour. |
| 536 | 1 | Because I am a part time wage-laborer making minimum wage in a bookstore while I attend a University but I live with my parents and receive financial assistance with several things so I do not consider myself to be poor. |
| 537 | 1 | I work for a living, as do my parents. We have a relatively comfortable lifestyle, but it's still very much dependent on everyone working. We are wage slaves, as it were. |
| 538 | 1 | I am a tile layer. |
| 539 | 1 | because I work and try to live from my disastrous salary... |
| 540 | 1 | Still living at home with my parents and they take care of me. However, when i move out i expect to "move" to working class |
| 541 | 1 | Somewhere bettween working class and lower middle class. My salary is 30 000$ a year right know (contratc of one year)- 17,50$/hour. |
| 542 | 1 | I have had to work for a living. No coupons to clip. |
| 543 | 1 | I have a higher education but no job. |
| 544 | 1 | because I need to work for my livelyhood |
| 545 | 1 | because my life |
| 546 | 1 | every one can work in my family does, or is looking for work |
| 547 | 1 | Given my class background, and class as an identity that comes from a historical understanding of my family's place in society, I am tempted to put that my class status hasn't changed. Should times get especially hard for me, for example, I have a safety net that other working class folks do not have. But I work shit jobs for little pay, live in the ghetto, collect foodstamps, and find more in common with other people who share that experience than with folks who are part of professional or ruli |
| 548 | 1 | I'm a full-time university student being supported by my parents, so I belong to their class. |
| 549 | 1 | Because I sell my labor power to be able to afford food, rent, etc. |
| 550 | 1 | I think of "Working Class" positions as requiring no specialized education or training; even though a "Working Class" position sometimes pays more than my current position. |
| 551 | 1 | it's what i chose to be |
| 552 | 1 | I am lazy. |
| 553 | 1 | Because I can support my self with food and shelter, and not much more than that. It's primary an economic view on it. And because i identify my self with that class. |
| 554 | 1 | by economics alone, we are working class -- single income family of four >55,000 in major u.s. city. by education (papa, BA, mama, PhD), we are upper middle class. |
| 555 | 1 | I am unemployed and homeless, sometimes employed in wage-labor retail or service jobs, educated with a year of jr. College, no will to take out loans to finish college in anything, unskilled, etc. |
| 556 | 1 | Education |
| 557 | 1 | Need to work for food \ shelter. never any extra for luxuries or savings. |
| 558 | 1 | Student/worker,still anchored to home sweet home |
| 559 | 1 | I am not well paid but my job is considered as prestiges |
| 560 | 1 | Because I have no savings, no capital and no political power in the work force. |
| 561 | 1 | My family used to have money, now we don't. I used to make good money, now I can't find decent work. I'm a recently returned college student, so it would be bizarre to call myself working class. |
| 562 | 1 | I make a decent living and live within my means. I feel I have a good life and the number of dollars and the exact mode in which I earn them has no bearing on the quality of my life, and so I reject this "class" paradigm. |
| 563 | 1 | Minimum wage jobs, pay check to pay check. |
| 564 | 1 | Very privileged, just not enough to have any power. |
| 565 | 1 | i work as a temp in a kindergarten. i sell my labour. |
| 566 | 1 | I work for as a public sector employee. Decent salary, but no power! |
| 567 | 1 | The same living level |
| 568 | 1 | Because I make enough money to get by but don't own a Caddy or cover my living space in filth like the lower class is characterized by. I'm not rich by any means, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have class. |
| 569 | 1 | I have to work in order to get by. |
| 570 | 1 | because to be a part of the middle class I would have to do things that I am not prepared to do. I do work part-time, but will be unemployed in a month and plan to take the time to work on personal projects, write. I am also a single parent and raising my child is important to me as is being involved in my community. |
| 571 | 1 | Not money centric, family didn't go to college. |
| 572 | 1 | I have no control over the means of production I am therefore working class. |
| 573 | 1 | Because I work for a living instead of own for a living. |
| 574 | 1 | I don't have a college degree and I work in the food service industry. |
| 575 | 1 | Because I am attending an elite university for a profession that will ensure my financial success. I have economic security. |
| 576 | 1 | Because I am a blue collar worker...and probably will be till the day I die. |
| 577 | 1 | I come from a rich heritage of... rich people! |
| 578 | 1 | i don't have a job. and i'm finding it hard to live above the poverty line and maintain a decent standard of living. |
| 579 | 1 | I work part time at a grocery store and I'm a full time college student. I don't drive a fancy car or live in a big house. |
| 580 | 1 | I do not own the means of production. Despite the relative privileges I've had due to class composition in the United States, I still must sell my labor in order to survive. |
| 581 | 1 | I am unemployed and get money from med studies/craigslist jobs/student loans. I dont have very much money but I still have the priveledges and abilities that are associated with the middle class upbringing I had. This, coupled with the fact that I still have a relationship with my Mom (who is upper middle class) and can fall back on her if I really need to (although I never have) mean that I classify myself as upper middle class even though my bank account would dispute that. |
| 582 | 1 | Because I have to work to survive, and don't own capital. |
| 583 | 1 | i don't put myself in classes |
| 584 | 1 | Based mostly off of income, and the lack of means other than my labor to support myself. |
| 585 | 1 | The only income I have is if I work & a few savings. Or I could collect a government benefit if I was desperate. I have nothing else to fall back on and I dont have rich parents to bail me out. |
| 586 | 1 | If you want to define class in purely occupational/economic terms, I am on a low and precarious income and do both little qualified (paid) work and highly qualified, academic (unpaid work) - no idea where that puts me. culturally, although I have friends from all social backgrounds, I am probably firmly middle class, albeit critically :-) |
| 587 | 1 | I'm unemployed--partially because I don't want a job, but mostly because I can't find one. |
| 588 | 1 | High Wages, but still work for wages. |
| 589 | 1 | I make 21K a year and struggle to pay my car insurance. I owe more in student loans than I make in a year. I'm a slave to the system. |
| 590 | 1 | Because I think we can't separate the unemployed from the workers while doing class distinctions. |
| 591 | 1 | Well, actually hard to say. I work hard in a collectively run business and make very little money (much less than I made as a truck driver or bartender, for instance). I to some degree (collectively) own (some of) the means of production, and I'm not having surplus value extracted from my hide. So what am I? A petit-bourgeois entrepreneur? But I also live with two no-longer-working-class people who make a lot more than me in a collective household ( a professor and a software engineer). Hard to |
| 592 | 1 | Solid income, opportunities to travel, independent of any social protection system |
| 593 | 1 | Long hours. Little pay. High assumption of risk for injury or termination. |
| 594 | 1 | Because my parents had the money to get higher educations and the luck to find well paying jobs. |
| 595 | 1 | I make less than 10,000 dollars a year (no time for working more as i'm paying for college myself) and between college and high school i never made more that 18k$ (USD) a year so yeah i'm solidly poor to working class. |
| 596 | 1 | Although I am poor and currently unemployed I usually hold down a job. I've always worked for someone else. |
| 597 | 1 | I am a computing student and so will likely become a computer programmer. |
| 598 | 1 | I can barely afford rent, food, smokes, and booze let alone luxury items. |
| 599 | 1 | I live with my brother, have a low paying part time job at a moving company, low income |
| 600 | 1 | I have a lot of things handed to me (from my parents). We're not wealthy, but we have everything we need, and I don't have to work to maintain this. |
| 601 | 1 | being a student makes you arrogant. |
| 602 | 1 | My mom (who I lived with) is currently unemployed and unlikely to get a job so she'll probably just ride out unemployment until she can get social security benefits in a year or two. I am currently living on my own in a different city, making $9,000 a year and hopefully attending college in the fall. So I guess my class is somewhat tenuous. I have the social capital of the upper middle class but without a bachelors my class status will continue to slip. |
| 603 | 1 | My dad has a small business and my mom is a stay at home mom. |
| 604 | 1 | My parents are rich. |
| 605 | 1 | Wealth. Parent's make over $250k. Sounds upper class to me. |
| 606 | 1 | Because I am no longer pursuing any sort of work purely to survive, I have worked in both manual and 'professional' roles in the past. |
| 607 | 1 | Chose it |
| 608 | 1 | Well, I am unemployed and a stuent. Bottom of the barrel, right? My family lives on child support checks and my mother has no job... so does it sound like les miz yet? But I often use alt. methods to get my food and clothing, due to it being the only way, thus I would be considered poor/unemployed. |
| 609 | 1 | Education, participating in the prevailing north american social condition (getting a job in an employee-owned company, etc) |
| 610 | 1 | I'm not poor, and my parents aren't either, but i'm certainly not rich either, and as i am not working i'm not working class |
| 611 | 1 | I am presently not a wage slave. |
| 612 | 1 | lack of safety net, inability to secure a good job or move in an upward direction. who i find myself having social affinity with and shared class cultural modes, i guess. |
| 613 | 1 | I am empolyed, but im very poor. |
| 614 | 1 | After a period of working in upper management myself, I am now self-employed as a mediator/consultant. |
| 615 | 1 | Parents. |
| 616 | 1 | Because I do not have much control over means of production at the place I work. Plus it doesn't pay a whole lot. |
| 617 | 1 | Currently unemployed. |
| 618 | 1 | They say it's the economy. More or less that's my answer in short. I could go on about theories backing that answer, but I'm sure many of us have similar understandings in relation to the global economy. |
| 619 | 1 | I attend a private liberal arts school on scholarship and financial aid, and, as such, live paycheck-to-paycheck for all additional expenses |
| 620 | 1 | Because I want to do community work, thus it is underpaid yet overworked. I was working class a very long time, but I now want to feed my kids better too. |
| 621 | 1 | Middle class in terms of income and culture; working class in terms of relation to the means of production |
| 622 | 1 | because i am unemployed and intend to stay that way |
| 623 | 1 | Would rather travel than work on a career at this point, and would ultimately rather live communally then work on a career. |
| 624 | 1 | Due to changes in my society's economy over which I had/have little control. |
| 625 | 1 | I work since I'm 12 and I change job oftenly, travelling a lot, I don't have children, I went to the university. I don't have money for extra spending but I have what I need and live the way I want, wich is quite a big privilege in this world. |
| 626 | 1 | I'm a college student who is well-enough off. I'm working off loans unlike some others who have scholarships and the like, but that's not a reason for showing that I'm not upper middle class. |
| 627 | 1 | spend less time working a job, more time raising a child and putting effort into my community. |
| 628 | 1 | I'm propertyless (without capital) and thus only have my labor power to sell... |
| 629 | 1 | Paycheck to paycheck struggles. Decent hourly wages, but tons of bills to keep a family of 6 fed and clothed and in school. |
| 630 | 1 | Because I work, with the aim of contributing to my community and human society at large. |
| 631 | 1 | I'm educated as an engineer who will be making six figures in a few years time. |
| 632 | 1 | I setup a company and make websites for people, get by OK right now. |
| 633 | 1 | ditto above: define class! ecomomically i live hand to mouth, barely. poverty level. culturally, i'm upper class, highly educated. my chlld is well dressed and goes to a private alternative school. how do i define my class? |
| 634 | 1 | In relation to the means of production |
| 635 | 1 | I have a steady job working a managerial position for a non-profit. I own nothing of worth, but have a rented roof over my head, pension fund, health care, have enough for a comfortable life and get to travel at least once a year. So it's plenty more than what a lot of the people I see every day have. |
| 636 | 1 | professional student. |
| 637 | 1 | Higher than median national salary. |
| 638 | 1 | i am on unemplyment benefits |
| 639 | 1 | It's fine with me, my Mom works at my high school which means I get a scholarship to go there and my Dad is a gardener. I feel like we have enough to meet my basic needs and allow me to explore new things. I don't really think Anarchists should be really ashamed of where they come from, if it is from wealth because it's not up to you who your parents are, people should be judged on their actions not their background. |
| 640 | 1 | freedom comes with worker class strikers |
| 641 | 1 | Due to low income and economic dependence on others |
| 642 | 1 | basing this on income... educationally and by profession would have a "higher" ranking |
| 643 | 1 | It is a combination of my own actions of having a family early and also because of a very difficult number of years during my formative times (years of living on the streets while a teenager among various other societal problems). Now I see much of the prosperity of our country siphoned to the top which obviously makes it more difficult to find any kind of upward mobility. I am working on my EE degree though and I will not always be poor if I can help it. |
| 644 | 1 | My job and my living situation match up with that. My lifestyle based on expenditure is closer to working class. |
| 645 | 1 | because i was laid off three years ago and have been scraping by. when work exists i work in the trades and accounting for my child would probably be "working class" |
| 646 | 1 | University Degrees. |
| 647 | 1 | Because I have no damn money. |
| 648 | 1 | Studying, working on the side. Sleep on a madress in my sisters livingroom. |
| 649 | 1 | I'm well educated (university) tough I'm not working directly in my domain of studies. I earn my life pretty well with a secretary job in a hospital which is not the wealthiest but not the hardest too. |
| 650 | 1 | i'm rich bitch! |
| 651 | 1 | white privilege, class privilege |
| 652 | 1 | Both parents were working class background (farm kid & missionary kid); both received college educations, father became an engineer and later, a pastor. I had access to a quality education (homeschooled), and some college. I have been able to find employment in the software industry. |
| 653 | 1 | This is the worst anarchist survey I´ve ever taken. There are only two maybe three class´s! Why cant I click Poor working class. Im this because of my relation to production and because I have no money. haha |
| 654 | 1 | Two good incomes...though not sure where the dividing lines is between middle class and upper middle class. |
| 655 | 1 | I earn enough to survive without any outside assistance; I barely am able to save. |
| 656 | 1 | Came from a privileged family and had access to good educational opportunities, attended elite schools, etc. Chose to work in labor and nonprofit but as a research / communications person, occupy a privileged position in the organizations. |
| 657 | 1 | I can't get full time work and I make less than two dollars over minimum wage. |
| 658 | 1 | I am a college student. |
| 659 | 1 | Actually, I like to view classes in the same way as German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer. I'm in what he calls the Productive Class rather than the Political Class, because I use what he calls the 'economic means' of acquiring money and goods rather than the 'political means' of violence or statist privilege. But regarding a specifically the class deliniation listed above, I choose working class, because (A) I currently have a crappy, low-paying job based on manual labour, and because (B) I |
| 660 | 1 | My dad earns about 80-90k a year (for the past 2 or so years) but since he's starting a business, much of his income is spent on that. His business got approved and now he's just waiting until he can officially open. My family is much more comfortable than in the past, and I'd say we're living comfortably, but isn't making enough for me to consider us rich or "upper class." |
| 661 | 1 | I'm a teacher, currently working in a foreign country for less than 20,000 dollars a year. |
| 662 | 1 | My husband and I are both nurses. |
| 663 | 1 | My mother and step-father are usually tight on money, and work as a secretary and a bartender respectively. We live comfortably, but have to save up to enjoy some of life's luxuries. My father is employed and paid well, holds two jobs with the fire department and often does odd-jobs with a friend's electric company. |
| 664 | 1 | Technically self-employed. Paid by results not hours. Determine own workload, not 9 to 5, but also work is rather irregularly available. Low-paid at some points, currently unable to afford to live independently. Despite high qualifications, unable to obtain stable job due to levels of bureaucracy etc. |
| 665 | 1 | As a student in a country with a seemingly strong social system, i am OK funded. Also i am studying to be a teacher, which here is considered a typical lower middle class job. |
| 666 | 1 | I have a college degree and work full time in a semi-professional, unionized nonprofit doing social work. I earn just enough to feel stable and have some disposable income, and have good benefits with my job. But I also have a significant amount of debt from student loans and being in debt makes me feel more marginal and less free in an economic sense than otherwise. Other than this, I feel that I'm no better or worse off than my parents, so I haven't moved between classes. |
| 667 | 1 | Still in roughly the same income bracket as my parents. Turned my back on a very promising corporate career following my graduate work. Wanted my life back. Would be nice to have a little more, but I don't plan to obsess over it... |
| 668 | 1 | Classes in this sense do not exist.they are merely descriptive labels. the only true 'classes' that exist are ruling exploiters vs ruled exploited. |
| 669 | 1 | Because I'm poor and unemployed, but I don't think about it as a class. |
| 670 | 1 | I'm no longer getting monetary support from parents, but they funded my education. By income, I'm working class, but I had enough education to spend wisely and the ability to get higher paying jobs. |
| 671 | 1 | I'm unemployed, likely to rejoin the lower middle class I'm still technically in when the masters allow me to work again. |
| 672 | 1 | I must sell my labor-power to survive. It is apparently not worth much to those who purchase it. |
| 673 | 1 | Currently unemployed and few propects |
| 674 | 1 | While currently unemployed, my parents' family-owned business has grown and there's more income. |
| 675 | 1 | Anyone whose household income is less than 250,000 in 2010 US Dollars is lower middle class, despite common prejudices that might set that number lower, say 100,000 or 50,000. |
| 676 | 1 | I work as a postman, aka a working class job. |
| 677 | 1 | I refuse to work for a capitalist business to start with. I am passionate about the alternative community online medias I manage, so I tend to ignore questions of money. I do what I feel is good or helpful, without much thought for money (as long as I have enough for shelter and food). |
| 678 | 1 | Identified with the disenfranchised/displaced people of the world and currently disabled receiving disability grants. |
| 679 | 1 | I am currently a train conductor on a closed shop class 1 railroad. |
| 680 | 1 | FUCK. There is no Middle Class. See my blog post on Revleft about the matter: http://www.revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=891 I am working class because I am dependent on my working class parents to survive. My parents are working class because they are hired by members of the upper ruling class to work on their means of production for a wage. |
| 681 | 1 | because i have nothing else to sell but my labour power. i work for a wage because i have to, not because i want to. class is a social relationship, a relationship of exploitation, not a gradation (like lower middle class, poor etc) or a thing (like income). i don't buy into any of that identity politics about class eg. 'i'm middle class because i have a well-paid job' (yet still have nothing else to sell but their labour power). the working class includes the poor, unemployed and lower middle c |
| 682 | 1 | I work a minimum wage job and so do the other people in my household my dad is retired and lives off a limited income. Our jobs don't require an education and we work on registers. |
| 683 | 1 | I'm a college student going for a teachers' license. |
| 684 | 1 | Part chance based on the environment I had growing up. Part made through my efforts. |
| 685 | 1 | Income and lifestyle. |
| 686 | 1 | I h |
| 687 | 1 | I rent Vans! |
| 688 | 1 | I am poor, I make under $10,000 a year working in fast food. |
| 689 | 1 | I am studying at a university, right now - so 'prevliged working class' with high cultur capital. |
| 690 | 1 | Have enough to buy material distractions and necessities, however my family owns no land. |
| 691 | 1 | I sell my work force to survive and earn a living below the poverty line. |
| 692 | 1 | Because I currently do not have to worry much about paying bills and what not. |
| 693 | 1 | I own(ans yes, I am aware the bank owns it until I am done paying it off) a multi unit property, I work as and am a union educated craft electrician. I have a graduate degree in the liberal arts |
| 694 | 1 | First of all, we don't own the means of production, so cannot be catagorized as upper class, second of all, the majority of income comes from blue collar work. However, we have enough wages to afford necessities. |
| 695 | 1 | I am poor and unemployed. However I do not necessarily claim this as a class identity, because my upper class background and the attendant class assumptions I was raised with still affect me and my understanding of class. Despite having no money currently, I still come from a background of privilege and to deny this would be dishonest and classist. |
| 696 | 1 | I was able to acquire resources to go to college and excel; this has led to even larger resources which are moving me up the class ladder and seperating me from my friends and family even further. Academia, the great isolator. |
| 697 | 1 | I am a recent graduate with a B.A. in Spanish searching for work |
| 698 | 1 | Since I was in 6th grade, my family's income has never exceeded 12,000/year. |
| 699 | 1 | I work a minimum wage food service job, but I have the possibility for further education/higher salary if I were to pursue it, opportunities opened up by my class/race privilege. |
| 700 | 1 | Because of my incomes and my values. |
| 701 | 1 | Well I'm currently unemployed. When I have a career or business, assuming such things are possible in the future, I'll likely be Upper Middle again. I find being a subordinate damn near unbearable. |
| 702 | 1 | Because I work at a goddamn factory. |
| 703 | 1 | I live a comfortable lifestyle, attend private school, will obtain higher education. |
| 704 | 1 | I struggle to pay for my flat, I've only my own work to sell. |
| 705 | 1 | Above average wage, DINK, own substantial share portfolio. |
| 706 | 1 | My relationship to the means of production mate. |
| 707 | 1 | Because currently i'm following education at one of the best schools in my country, which is full of shell capitalist and other ruling class crap.. |
| 708 | 1 | Hand to mouth existence- inability to consistently pay rent or bills- no steady work at this point |
| 709 | 1 | my family is comfortable and doesn't struggle too hard but we're not rich |
| 710 | 1 | Well, I am privileged by the state, but I am not wealthy. I make enough to get by and I do well with that. |
| 711 | 1 | I have a steady job with good pay and benefits for a large global technology company. |
| 712 | 1 | I work and attend school, doing quite well. |
| 713 | 1 | I'm a Student, I live very modestly in a small apartment in Baltimore, yet I still have a lot of money in the bank which I don't use simply out of a desire to save up for my future. I believe this makes me lower middle class |
| 714 | 1 | I work for a tiny nonprofit org. and live/work on a semi-collective farm, where I work for my keep instead of paying rent. I barely make ends meet, and have worked at farm labor, manufacturing and other low-wage jobs my whole adult life. I identify as working class, despite coming from a "middle class" background, because I work for a living and have never held a management position, much less owned my own business or employed anyone else. |
| 715 | 1 | im a student who doesn't receive centre-link so my mum pays my rent while i work for the rest. while we've never really had much money, and still don't in the most part, i think that this really qualifies that we've no longer 'not very wealthy'. i don't know how this standard relates to other peoples views but it makes sense to me. |
| 716 | 1 | comfortable income, minimal debt |
| 717 | 1 | I'm a college student that still gets a little bit of money from my parents to live off of, so I'm still part of the class I grew up in. |
| 718 | 1 | Because my parents belong to the class. |
| 719 | 1 | because i don't want to play a part in commerce, i live a 'rustic lifestyle', and do not consume much. |
| 720 | 1 | income and job. |
| 721 | 1 | Political wiews and my familys history in the working class. |
| 722 | 1 | Amount of money that family makes, location of residence. |
| 723 | 1 | My income allows me to afford the things and products which would be for lower classes difficult to get. |
| 724 | 1 | Because I work for a living at low wages doing menial work. |
| 725 | 1 | I have to work 40 to 60 hours a week to make ends meet. working for a corporation I do not agree with their business practices; eg. understaffing, cuttting benifits, etc. I really wouldnt consider a lower/middle class scenerio because that is so muddled. it seems to me that if you make a dollar or two more an hour you can be rich to some, and poorer to others. |
| 726 | 1 | I earn a wage and need it to pay for rent, food, utilities. |
| 727 | 1 | Wage Worker but making above average wages. |
| 728 | 1 | I have a fairly low paying job and get by paycheck to paycheck |
| 729 | 1 | We live a relatively comfortable life but struggle to pay the bills. |
| 730 | 1 | "working class" is much more ambiguous today, and I think my parents identity as 'blue collar' is a dying one (ie there are few factories left). I guess I identify as working through through my back ground, but also because I'm for the most part still poor, but have access to a lot of cultural capital / education. |
| 731 | 1 | Based on my employment/education history/prospects. |
| 732 | 1 | cause im drowning. everyday is more precarious than the last. |
| 733 | 1 | Barely amke enough money to survive, but don't consider myself poor (am working poor by gov't definition) |
| 734 | 1 | at any time i could 'fall' , i depend on my masters |
| 735 | 1 | Union construction worker |
| 736 | 1 | there is noone who would belong to class. there is nothing to belong to. |
| 737 | 1 | Annual Income of $97,000 U.S. 401K of $40,000 U.S. |
| 738 | 1 | I have a so-called "white collar" job as a programmer. Still living paycheck to paycheck though. |
| 739 | 1 | I work for just above minimum wage for 35-40 hours a week to support myself. This is pretty much the definition of working class in my time in place. |
| 740 | 1 | I work in construction and make little money (part-time due to those accursed child labour laws). |
| 741 | 1 | low wage office worker, no power @ job. dependent on the wage to live. |
| 742 | 1 | i am the sole proprietor of a small business but i struggle to pay my bills. i don't have health insurance and if i am not careful i could easily become destitute and homeless. |
| 743 | 1 | Barely afford to get by living off other peoples sofas even though i work nearly full time. |
| 744 | 1 | There is a difference between class as related to the means of production (worker/manager/boss/owner/self-employed), income level (lower/middle/upper) and cultural class. A lot of times they are interconnected, but not always. There are 'blue collar' working class longshoremen in the United States who earn upper middle class salaries because they have a strong militant union. There are 'white collar' computer engineers who earn less than some 'blue collar' workers, but who are also working clas |
| 745 | 1 | Professional student |
| 746 | 1 | I have not worked for 3 years, thats more my situation though. I don't rally or caucus with unemployed regularly. I have a stronger class identity with anyone who's not a master. |
| 747 | 1 | I wouldn't consider myself wealthy but I do make enough to live comfortably. |
| 748 | 1 | dad is a retired factory worker, mum is a school cook, and i need to work in order to pay for things... |
| 749 | 1 | income, area I live in, read the guardian... |
| 750 | 1 | Having to work hard to get things you need and want. |
| 751 | 1 | i'm unemployed. i'm trained as a librarian. if i had a librarian job, i suppose I would be earning a middle class income. i have middle class (graduate level) education. i don't own property. i have some cash in the bank. i'm going to start work for the US census this week, because that's whats available. |
| 752 | 1 | i do not belong to a class because i do not identify with capitalism or economics and will not allow any institution to reify my life. i struggle economically, but that doesn't mean i won't have more access to wealth at a later time. |
| 753 | 1 | unemployed for years but still have college education ....(so...?) |
| 754 | 1 | im unemployed and live by doin dirt in these streets |
| 755 | 1 | As a graduate student in the humanities I'm not on much of a track to the owning class, but I certainly haven't given up my class privilege and I live a thoroughly comfortable economic existence. |
| 756 | 1 | Not sure exactly where I belong. I am an educator but work sort of in a half teacher/half admin role and get paid according to that. I have two masters. Being honest with myself, I'm middle class. My oldest friends and family are firmly upper middle class. I have some connections with 'powerful' or wealthy people. I get paid less than them due to my job. My partner is an immigrant with no university education. He grew up in a lower working class family. He has no 'skills' as defined by |
| 757 | 1 | I'm temporary worker, so pretty much the bottom of the working class, but still working class |
| 758 | 1 | i work for a wage in order to pay bills and feed myself |
| 759 | 1 | I belong to this class because I believe I didn't take school seriously enough. However, I am currently enrolled in college now. |
| 760 | 1 | I work indoors but I don't have much (if any) money left after paying bills and other necessities. |
| 761 | 1 | Because I make a salary of over 30 000$ / years, I have great skills that are recognized, I have a University degree and I have connections that can help me find jobs... and I don't have kids yet, so I only support myself, can travel a bit, live well, etc. |
| 762 | 1 | Because I have a white collar job but not tons of money, no property or savings, etc. |
| 763 | 1 | Circumstances of birth and time. |
| 764 | 1 | I'm a teacher. |
| 765 | 1 | because I am currently unemployed, but do have some "financial safety" mostly due to my parents. |
| 766 | 1 | i am a college student with little money. my parents still help me financially, but they are no longer part of the upper/upper-middle class (my dad got cancer, lost his job, etc.) |
| 767 | 1 | I am a recent college graduate working for less than minimum wage as a mentor at an elementary school, so I have little money but am working a lot doing something somewhat beneficial. |
| 768 | 1 | college-educated with tastes and values influenced by my upbringing. recently graduated, work full-time but continue to receive my parent's financial assistance and use their health insurance policy. my skills set and education have prepared me for jobs typical of "lower-middle" or "upper-middle" class |
| 769 | 1 | My dad's career choice |
| 770 | 1 | I have little money but have a safety net |
| 771 | 1 | I belong to this class because I do not own any property and all I have to sell is my labor power. |
| 772 | 1 | Educational background (highest degree is an MPhil). Upbringing (lower-upper middle class; parents were civil servants but we weren't v well-off). Current job as freelance writer (pay is minimal, esp as I'm trying to keep as much time as possible for non-paying activities like activism, my allotment, and the writing I do for fun; but it's a middle-class-type job IMO). Current household income (both partners have well-paid upper-middle-class jobs). |
| 773 | 1 | parent's are wage earners. Lower Suburbia but just getting by. |
| 774 | 1 | I am still supported heavily by my parents. I live a working class lifestyle with dumpster diving, DIY stuff, making my own clothes/food/tools when possible. |
| 775 | 1 | It's both blue and white collar work. I don't make a huge amount of money like an professional white collar worker. |
| 776 | 1 | Cos I have no control over my conditions of life and earn less than a pound above the minimum wage. |
| 777 | 1 | Work in an office, but pay is not high. |
| 778 | 1 | based on my income, wealth and lifestyle. But of course, I am much happier than many people who have a great deal of money! |
| 779 | 1 | student who leeches off his parents |
| 780 | 1 | partner works whitecollar, I teach my kids and am net and real world activist |
| 781 | 1 | I live on Pension Credit. Class is really more complex than the question allows. |
| 782 | 1 | I was lucky. |
| 783 | 1 | I currently work at a museum but make less that a couple thousand a year. |
| 784 | 1 | Professional job, but none of the pretentious trappings of my family. I read broadsheet newspapers in preference to the tabloids. I don't give a fuck about X-factor. |
| 785 | 1 | Wage slave - no private property |
| 786 | 1 | Because that is within the low-level pay area that I am in. |
| 787 | 1 | I can pay the rent, but have no savings, assets, property... I live paycheque to paycheque. No outside support. |
| 788 | 1 | Because I am frequently unemployed, and when employed I tend to have low paying jobs in factories and warehouses. |
| 789 | 1 | Me? I don't. I'm not going to be inheriting my dad's position, and he earned it through study and work, too. My grandparents were all working class. |
| 790 | 1 | 1/ The unemployed are part of workimg class 2/Only by selling my "capacity" can I get money |
| 791 | 1 | i am cancer research worker (+ worked on my phd thesis) so i am not working class in "old fashion way", on the other hand i am not well payed (compare to other professions) |
| 792 | 1 | I don't understand this question. Like what circumstances put me here or why I chose to check that box over the others? This should be clarified or you'll get ultra-retarded answers. |
| 793 | 1 | All my needs are met. |
| 794 | 1 | Cause my income wont increase an i wont move from the lower working field either. I will be working With them. |
| 795 | 1 | I graduated with a philosophy degree, money is not the most important thing. |
| 796 | 1 | I have been underemployed for several months (I tutor and am a lab aide but they do not bring in as much money as a fast food job pays), I am in debt, and rely on my parents and social services for food money every month. However, these are largely a product of my position as a university student. |
| 797 | 1 | I find the terminology ambiguous, actually. I'm used to either a system of "working class" (employed by someone else), "middle class" (neither working class nor landed aristocracy--essentially, the capitalists), and "upper class" (a largely obsolete class of the landed aristocracy); or a system of income-based classes pretty much designed to hide property relations. In daily use, I personally stick to the terms "working class" and "employing class." |
| 798 | 1 | I have no job lmao |
| 799 | 1 | My parents have earned a considerable amount of money above that which they did, when I grew up. I benefit from that of course. Otherwise I am a student and havevery little in the way of money myself. However when I get my university degree, that may change. |
| 800 | 1 | Although I don't believe in class as a concrete construct, I'd say that the term best describes my current condition, that being one of comfort, but comparatively less wealth than those around me. |
| 801 | 1 | Because I have always worked for a living and had to defend my rights through union organization |
| 802 | 1 | mechanization of capitalism pervasive influence of class background (contacts, speech, etc.) Having few other options homelessness |
| 803 | 1 | i'm a self-employed artist/performer. i generally earn at least a living wage, but only when it's warm out, or i'm hired for a gig. i'm not comfortable identifying as working class because my experience with money is quite different from people with day jobs, and i grew up with class privilege. i like the term 'artist class;' sometimes you get paid quite a lot, but it funds a lot of your own projects that later get turned into income, rather than upper class status markers. |
| 804 | 1 | The salary I earn |
| 805 | 1 | According to my lifestyle, cash-flow... |
| 806 | 1 | I feel obligated to work in order to stay housed and fed. I make a modest income, including health insurance, but it is the only income for my household of two. I haven't had a raise in three years. I do traditionally blue collar work. |
| 807 | 1 | Cause i only survive with what i earn |
| 808 | 1 | Because I don't make a lot of money, or want to; but I'm not a wage-slave. |
| 809 | 1 | Because I have little power over the decisions that affect my life. In my work I work for an employer as a wage slave; I have no control over the means of production. As a student I am poor, and rely on government grants and the like to get by. |
| 810 | 1 | I am between classes, but here is my definition of class... coming from a person who came of age in the US during the current recession, seeing kids my age become homeless for lack of available jobs, having to drop out of school for lack of funding, etc. I am financially poor; I live off of borrowed money and that is sometimes not enough. I've tried to find work to make up for the rest, but have been unable to find it after months of searching. However, I don't feel poor. With the wealth of d |
| 811 | 1 | I used to be homeless, my expenses are higher than my earnings, I can't afford any medical treatment or education, I've got some debts as well. |
| 812 | 1 | I don't have any job. I don't have any money. I will be a University student soon technically. |
| 813 | 1 | We have enough to afford living, but not too much more. |
| 814 | 1 | Class is a social construct its not real, the advantages and disadvantages to class are real, but i am not bound by my class. I can use my privilege for good (a) |
| 815 | 1 | I dont own alot....and I work with m hands. |
| 816 | 1 | 'cause I continue to suffer like my parents.. :) I just have an apartment which I'll pay its mortgage for 5.5 years |
| 817 | 1 | I am employed , rather than owning a means of production myself. My job's part time and pays only just above minimum wage too, so my personal income and wealth is nowhere near "middle class". |
| 818 | 1 | i went to college. i'm white. my parents did ok for themselves. they were able to look after me. |
| 819 | 1 | I have not worked in 3 years, and get all my food from dumpsters. |
| 820 | 1 | I am more privileged and have access to many more things than a lot of people even though I'm relatively poor. |
| 821 | 1 | I make a decent (livable) wage and get paid to think about problems. |
| 822 | 1 | Because I sweat and bleed for my money instead of sitting in a cubicle. |
| 823 | 1 | I will be graduating from university in a month and intend on working in business development |
| 824 | 1 | I have to work for a living to support myself and my family |
| 825 | 1 | As a student it is difficult to fit into a class. We receive loans and grants to attend in hopes that we will elevate our class. I see us as a shifting class with potential to either settle lower or higher. However that being said, I cannot afford a place of my own and am forced to rent a someone lower end apartment. |
| 826 | 1 | Would not fit into the working class or lower middle class due to income, which has become significantly higher than typically expected in those, yet wouldn't fit into the upper middle class, since I don't occupy a management position and have no subordinates. I write code and build stuff. The socioeconomic class where I really wish to belong might be described as "well-equipped and well-insured grey-market non-taxpayer unpersons". As far as survey suggestions go, I have doubts about the prac |
| 827 | 1 | I'm not working class, as I work for a non-profit housing organization. But I'm pretty broke most of the time. Yet I get by just fine since I only have to support myself. |
| 828 | 1 | I am a freelance translator, i work mostly part-time. I have one daughter and dont still renting a house. And still get support from my mom. |
| 829 | 1 | work on a farm part time and teaching english the other part time |
| 830 | 1 | Students are in a sort-of rift-between-classes. Perhaps we should be widening that rift, inviting radicals to feed off the State while organizing. |
| 831 | 1 | I go to school and i work to live. |
| 832 | 1 | I attend an Ivy League University. Though I'm not as wealthy as my peers, I still feel that some kind of inherent cultural dominance has been given me at University |
| 833 | 1 | Petit Bourgeoisie |
| 834 | 1 | Full time hours, but just enough money to pay rent. No groceries, car insurance, or anything else for that matter. I'm poor class by definition based on monetary income, but I've been worse off. Therefore I identify my minute fortune with being working class. |
| 835 | 1 | working 40hours a week for a moderate wage, mix of manual and pc-work, lots of bosses, no-one below me, no room for creativity at work, ... living in a not-so-big house in a area with mainly working class and lower middle class people |
| 836 | 1 | I'm a student in high school. I think, the class I belong to now, won't change until I'll move out and start my independent life. Then- we will see. |
| 837 | 1 | I move between unemployment and casual labouring work, have nothing to sell but my labour power and such. |
| 838 | 1 | I am a graduate student, and with that position am afforded various privileges, including extensive benefits, a steady salary etc. |
| 839 | 1 | I have no job and am broke. |
| 840 | 1 | Good education, however cannot seem to get ahead in terms of employment opportunities and as a result have never had much money. |
| 841 | 1 | My parent got divorced, my mom and dad both re-married up, and because of how old I was when this all happened, the upbringing I got jumped up a class, so I have middle/upper middle class mentality. |
| 842 | 1 | I only work 20 hours a week while going to school full time, to get a job that will not pay much. |
| 843 | 1 | Statistics of my country |
| 844 | 1 | I'm a wageslave. |
| 845 | 1 | Make less than most working class families as a grad student, but my regular interactions at work involve people from middle class backgrounds. |
| 846 | 1 | no job live with grandma, suburban decline in crystal. |
| 847 | 1 | My income is about double the average. |
| 848 | 1 | i have used my phd to get a decent, well-paying job as a professor at a fancy-pants institution, where i can control almost all my time and do what i want, as well as have quite a bit of "leisure" if i so choose. of course, that is not obviously built into this structure, as most of my "peers" work all the time, etc. still, the choice is there to take, which is not an option for many. |
| 849 | 1 | I do not have education beyond a high school diploma, as I chose to leave my private college because taking advantage of my class privilege in such an ostentatious way felt very uncomfortable to me and I felt isolated as a radical among liberals/reactionaries, most also with similar backgrounds to mine. I now work in a social service field, so I have what most would consider a "professional" job (i.e. I have a title and it's more or less white collar work) but I am certainly not highly paid. |
| 850 | 1 | As a broke college student, I would consider myself poor and unemployed (living off debt)--but-- At the end of the day I am always welcome under my parents' roof, a privilege some others are not so lucky to have. |
| 851 | 1 | I'm a technician, working in an office, using my intellectual capital more than my "raw" force. |
| 852 | 1 | Because my mother was born into it, and married my father, who was raised very poor as a farmer in Nebraska, and he is a man with a good conscience. Capitalism makes it impossible to ascend the class ranks without ruthlessness, and so we remain where we are. |
| 853 | 1 | Cash/year and social network, life quality |
| 854 | 1 | I work. I live paycheck to paycheck. History of union activity... |
| 855 | 1 | I sell my labour for a wage and have no other means to survive. |
| 856 | 1 | Don't care about money as much as my parents do, thus didn't pursue a life path dedicated to acquiring money. |
| 857 | 1 | Can't (won't) identify with the rich [upper ruling], or the aspiring rich [upper middle], but neither can I, truly, with the very poor [aspiring rich]. Am product of left protestant parsimonious rationalist humanist empathetic upbringing, and have learnt that, dumping the religious bits, the rest it reasonably in line with the golden rule. |
| 858 | 1 | On one side, my mother is about to be unemployed, and me and my brother live with her in "social housing" i.e. cheap rent house provided by the State. On other hand, my dad rents a much nicer place, though only because he gets a good rate from my property developer uncle! He makes a middle range income. My background i.e grandparents and wider family are mostly middle/even upper class, so I guess sociology comes into it in terms of self-desciption. |
| 859 | 1 | I am a university student and have the support of my parents and family, who are also lower middle class. |
| 860 | 1 | Because my dad got rich and now pays for my education and housing. |
| 861 | 1 | I make $23,000 per year gross at a job I had to go to college for (in which I supported myself for much of), a lot of that goes to student loan debt and bills, and I live paycheck to paycheck for the most part. I read that gross personal incomes for lower middle class were usually a minimum of $32,500. Frankly, I'd be rolling in it if I made that much. |
| 862 | 1 | I'm a young college student. My family remains in the same class. |
| 863 | 1 | It's an interesting dynamic. If you were you look at my income alone, it's about 20k below the poverty line for a single male living in an urban area. That is between 10k-18k a year. Yet, I don't feel like I live in poverty. I suppose I lack many of those shiny and new consumer niceties: Car, new clothes, television, &c. |
| 864 | 1 | Graduate student. I'm poor, and I grew up without money. But my Dad was a community college professor and my Mom a nurse (with a Master's, no less) so I think it's disingenuous to call myself working class, when I have access to a lot of social capital, privileges, and resources, as well as potential for class mobility that other poor folks don't have. |
| 865 | 1 | Single parent |
| 866 | 1 | with the privileges from a well off and some sort financially supportive family, i have been able to "drift" in the mechanism of employment, i do not believe in work, but i see the "need" to sustain |
| 867 | 1 | I earn very little money :) I have no power to hire or fire. |
| 868 | 1 | Lack of wealth and surplus of education... |
| 869 | 1 | I still identify with being part of the working class; I am a student with full financial aid and I am in the same financial situation I grew up in so I feel like I still belong to this class. |
| 870 | 1 | I work full time in a mail room. My wife works full time in fast food. We live on the cheap, and are going to be able to take a couple of months off of working soon from saving over the past 2 years. But we still have no real economic control over our lives. We live in a working class neighborhood. We take the bus. We shop at crappy discount stores. I owe more money to student loan corporations than I make in a year, or would make in even 2 or three years. Neither of my parents went to college. |
| 871 | 1 | I'm a student full time and I work a part-time blue collar job. I've worked pretty much all blue collar jobs in the past. |
| 872 | 1 | I'm 16 and therefor still living with my parents. |
| 873 | 1 | I work in the service industry for minimum wage and support myself. |
| 874 | 1 | We moved up the corporate ladder by working hard. |
| 875 | 1 | I'm a broke public school student. |
| 876 | 1 | Working class but we live of my wife family's properties. |
| 877 | 1 | Work. |
| 878 | 1 | Recently lost job. |
| 879 | 1 | Brains, cleverness and luck. |
| 880 | 1 | Parents salary. Currently dependent |
| 881 | 1 | Graduate student |
| 882 | 1 | I am a teacher. White collar work, blue collar pay (more or less depending on specifics) |
| 883 | 1 | I am a student and I have no wealth for myself. I am a leech off of my parents and I wish to be self sufficient very soon. |
| 884 | 1 | Because I work for a living! |
| 885 | 1 | I'm unemployed but do want a job at the moment. It's also a active choice to work less and do things i belive matters more to me and others. |
| 886 | 1 | Because I'm currently studying, and when I'm done with that, I'll do wagework, which makes me a worker. |
| 887 | 1 | I am not working, I am very poor |
| 888 | 1 | while I have a good education, do what the middle classes'do' culturally, am partnered to a teacher, I don't own the means of production and I'm unemployed just now. I was brought up on a council estate, left school with few qualifications, and was unemployed a lot of the time before I took my degree, got some teaching qualifications. I don't have a work ethic, but I've always been exploited by the bosses, hence I belong to the working class. |
| 889 | 1 | My income has been less than $7, 000 a year in the US for several years now |
| 890 | 1 | I'm a cook, and I do not get paid very much. |
| 891 | 1 | Because I have to work to survive and that's how I identfy. |
| 892 | 1 | My mother and I are both at College, and have no form of income beside state benefits. |
| 893 | 1 | I have lived my life with my mother who's income has either been welfare or poor paying temporary jobs. This has included several instances of homelessness. |
| 894 | 1 | I would like a full time job, but I've had trouble finding one that didn't feel like too much of a sacrifice. I'm intermittently employed as an independent contractor and would probably technically qualify for the lowest bracket, but I have trouble considering myself "poor" as my life is comfortable and I am here by choice. |
| 895 | 1 | I see anarchism as a working class ideology, if we are to start a revolution, none of us should be controlling other peoples lives. |
| 896 | 1 | Your class is dependent on your relation to the means of production, not income/wealth. As a student and an employee in a call centre, I would class myself as working class. |
| 897 | 1 | Neither me or my family have any means of production of our own |
| 898 | 1 | A combination of earnings, social milieu and political proclivity bracket me in this position |
| 899 | 1 | THE POOR ARE A BUNCH OF SICK FUCKS WHO MUST BE DOMINATED |
| 900 | 1 | It's the box society puts me in. |
| 901 | 1 | I work, but I struggle paycheck to paycheck, with very few excesses. In fact, I'm thinking of hunkering down and getting food stamps. |
| 902 | 1 | my mother is not employed. my siblings and are not employed. my father's income and our savings were enough to support a family of five, send one person to community college, and send one person to a state university (with the help of Stafford loans and a partial scholarship) |
| 903 | 1 | Income. I am below middle class in income but not unemployed or working poor. |
| 904 | 1 | Well. After I get my welding certificate, I will be working class. |
| 905 | 1 | Because I can |
| 906 | 1 | Its not quite accurate, lumpen would probably be the best term becasue its quite mixed. I am a student at a liberal arts school, so I access to hella "middle class" opportunities, but on the other hand I get financial aid, have lots of loans, and I am on partial scholarship. I have been working minimum wage or close to minimum wage service and manufacturing jobs since i was 16, and supporting myself on them since 18. Also right now I work under the table doing childcare so I have foodstamps. An |
| 907 | 1 | I don't owe my means of living |
| 908 | 1 | Because the social class you belong to is a product of your relationship to the means of production. Do i own means of production? No. I am not bourgeois. Therefore, do i have to sell my labour for a wage to survive? Yes. I am a proletarian. |
| 909 | 1 | I got no money, no job, no house. I do have access to food, but not in what would be considered "legitimate" ways. I don't have any assets to speak of, and am not actively seeking assets. |
| 910 | 1 | My parents own a few small houses or apartment complexes, but are losing money on it. Rather than really being exacting landlords, they simply followed the advice disseminated by economists and financial advisors. My mother is a physical therapist, while my dad is out of a job, formerly an electrical engineer running a small computer repair shop that went under, before going through jobs with FedEx and the US Postal Service. |
| 911 | 1 | i'm a student and my parents earn enough money to partially support me, the government does the rest. |
| 912 | 1 | this class used to be against the proletarians because the capitalists need her to planify and organize social exploitation. |
| 913 | 1 | because 1. i don t have a steady income (flex and 'freelance), 2. because the type of work i do can be done without any kind of diploma or education (cleaning and washing dishes) 3. my income is less than what people with a social wellfair receive from the state (cant spell it) 4. my monthly income is 550-650 euro's and my costs (rent, schoolmoney) are 530 euros which gives me 20-120 euros a month to buy food, beer, travelcosts, printing (schoolwork), cloths etc. |
| 914 | 1 | I'm a working single parent with a service industry job who lives paycheck to paycheck, and couldn't afford to eat if I didn't have foodstamps. |
| 915 | 1 | I am unable to pay my bills. I have no vehicle, and I may be without a home soon. |
| 916 | 1 | I'm currently on social aid, to take care about may children. But as I'm a physisit, I may become oeconomically soon upper middle class |
| 917 | 1 | No job, no money. |
| 918 | 1 | I work, manual labor, few dollars. |
| 919 | 1 | Innumerable reasons, everything leads to something else. |
| 920 | 1 | Parents divorced. Mother took me and moved. Father got a break at work since he had no family to go home to. Lucky lucky lucky. |
| 921 | 1 | I'm working in a kebab as a cook, and I don't have any bigger actions/investments located in any enterprise and I don't take profit by property of means of production. |
| 922 | 1 | Because of my parents, I suppose - guess I should look into it more! |
| 923 | 1 | I was born into the bourgeoisie and I remain a bourgeois because I have not yet been able to more than slightly abandon the security of bourgeois comfort. |
| 924 | 1 | I'm young enough that I could belong to any of the lower 3 or 4 classes if I applied myself. I've lived homeless/jobless, had a job and a place, and have lived off my parents at home and gone to school. |
| 925 | 1 | It fits your definition of "white collar yet not very wealthy". |
| 926 | 1 | Because I do not own any property, I work an industrial job, yet I am also often unemployed. |
| 927 | 1 | My parents are quite wealthy, but are in no real leadership position. My father is quite far up in the hierarchy of a very large corporation, but still doesn't take any big decisions at all, and mostly answers to a boss. |
| 928 | 1 | Because I earn money in a clerical setting which involves little to no manual labor. |
| 929 | 1 | Simple: can't make enough money to keep up. |
| 930 | 1 | I take advantage of free rent with my aging parents, one of which is on disability and part-time work, the other of which lost his job of 40 years at the fruit cannery that got bought out. I make almost $400 a month babysitting and house-sitting, and the rest I have to scam to get the money for enough taco bell to keep me going. |
| 931 | 1 | Low income hourly wage. |
| 932 | 1 | I don't own or have control over the means of production. |
| 933 | 1 | because i'm poor and unemployed... and very cynic |
| 934 | 1 | i have a white collar job and make decent money |
| 935 | 1 | Becouse i'm unemployed, i've got no perspective for work and not enough money to study. |
| 936 | 1 | largew debt loads, no meaningful employment |
| 937 | 1 | i live pay check to pay check and make well under 10 grand USD a year. This puts me below the poverty line. |
| 938 | 1 | I work hard for minimum wage/tips, and am about $14,000 below the poverty line. |
| 939 | 1 | no control over resources need for life, production. heavy debt, no wealth low income |
| 940 | 1 | I'm doing a doctoral research, have no income, no power at my establishment... Don't really know where that fits into the class system. |
| 941 | 1 | I don't have a job. And I don't have any money. |
| 942 | 1 | i am technically under the poverty level, and seldom have a "real job." |
| 943 | 1 | im in the class that pays taxes that the government and other parasites live off. |
| 944 | 1 | No much money for new clothes, good quality food, travelling, cinema tickets and other stuff characteristic to Upper Middle Class lazy bastards :) |
| 945 | 1 | We do not need to worry about money as much as before and we can afford some of the more expensive things in life. |
| 946 | 1 | Having been laid off in June of 2009, I have not yet established my underground/counter-economic income stream in earnest yet. |
| 947 | 1 | I'm a student, living comfortably. |
| 948 | 1 | Because I am an unemployed single parent on state benefits |
| 949 | 1 | Essentially, I don't own any means of production so technically I could be called working class. Yet, I have background that has meant I have had access to university education and currently work in a relatively well paid job, hence I would say I am lower middle class and at the moment feel it would be hypocritical to claim to be working class. Should I lose my job of course that could easily change. |
| 950 | 1 | The slack. |
| 951 | 1 | status occupation; decent income; property owning |
| 952 | 1 | Even though I'm unemployed my family are all working class. |
| 953 | 1 | My partner and I both have serious degrees and jobs, but we are paid less then a master electrician. |
| 954 | 1 | I'm going to school in the fall and right now working part time and supplementing my living with savings. |
| 955 | 1 | I am a real estate executive. I make $50k/yr and own several buildings. |
| 956 | 1 | I own nothing and work to hardly pay rent. |
| 957 | 1 | My partner is a manager (but also a worker) in the health care field and makes a good amount of money in that job. I am currently not making very much money, but that is because I am getting a PhD. Class status, of course, has to do with more than income, and I think that my professional status as an academic puts me in a position that moves me away from the working class, even though I am a union member in my profession, union activist, and I make very little money at this point in time. It |
| 958 | 1 | I manage a third party logistics company. I don't really do all that much labor, most is administrative. |
| 959 | 1 | I'm a college student from a poor family. |
| 960 | 1 | I feel as if I'm being farmed, a feedlot animal, if you will. Certainly not in the Ruling Class, but still bled on a regular basis to fill the bowls of the "ruling class." Not many overseer-type privileges come my way, so I'm not even in the upper middle class. |
| 961 | 1 | e.g. “white collar” yet not very wealthy seems to fit |
| 962 | 1 | I am a student worker who makes $11 per hour. |
| 963 | 1 | I am an unskilled low paid worker. |
| 964 | 1 | That question was hard for me, because I've only been employed for a few days and I plan to be working for at least the next several months if not few years. I choose to be working class, before I chose to be that, I was unemployed for over three years by choice. I belong to this class because I choose it. |
| 965 | 1 | I'm a student with little money, working to live. |
| 966 | 1 | Poor indebted student class? |
| 967 | 1 | My lack of employment and funds. |
| 968 | 1 | because a produce. (carpenter) i dont own means of production (land,factory,shares etc) |
| 969 | 1 | i just earned a professional degree and i have white skin privilege, but i do not yet have a professional job. at this point, i work for minimum wage and can barely afford food. my parents are in a higher social class, but cannot afford to help me financially because they are financially supporting other family members who have health problems. i could move in with them if i had a financial emergency, but i am managing to stay one paycheck away from disaster. i cannot afford to have an emerg |
| 970 | 1 | I am a professional student. This was a conscious choice reflecting my privilege to choose relative poverty. |
| 971 | 1 | I am a former student living on my own with no job. |
| 972 | 1 | Mother is unemployed but works as a saleswoman, father is a technician that worked his way into a management position. Family does not have a lot of wealth and assets. |
| 973 | 1 | Because I would be living paycheck to paycheck...if I had a regular paycheck. I don't have a car or children, and thankfully it's by choice because I doubt I could afford either. |
| 974 | 1 | Because of my level of income. |
| 975 | 1 | Living paycheck to paycheck. |
| 976 | 1 | Official income ranges. |
| 977 | 1 | because I am a worker who has to work in order to live! |
| 978 | 1 | I live with my single mother and brother. She has 2 jobs and has VERY expensive medical procedures she has to go through very often. I have 3 jobs. My brother can't work yet. We live paycheck to paycheck. |
| 979 | 1 | Because I have no regular work, I generally have to live precariously, and I don't have healthcare. |
| 980 | 1 | Because I wasn't born into monumental undeserved wealth. |
| 981 | 1 | Because I work an almost minimum wage job. |
| 982 | 1 | Well, I am unemployed, do not live with my parents, and do not have very much money at all. But I am on good terms with my parents, so I have a crutch in that respect. |
| 983 | 1 | I live with my parents and my grandmother, and my parents and I help take care of my grandma. We live in her house and as a result, we have different opportunities that we did when I was growing up; my parents do not need to worry about housing as it's my grandmother's house, etc. But because taking care of my grandmother is my mother's full time job and my father is retired, my parents do still not make much money. I work part time at an abortion clinic which does not bring me much money. |
| 984 | 1 | Wasn't sure which class to put myself in at all. I'm a staff nurse, living in social housing. And I don't really identify with these social classes you've put down. But I thought about how my neighbours might categorise me, and I think they'd think I'm middle class because I have a profession. |
| 985 | 1 | salary almost minimum, still paying my university debt, don't find good job in my field of study. |
| 986 | 1 | I belong to the tax payer class and not the tax eater class. |
| 987 | 1 | Small house, alright income but in a middle class area. |
| 988 | 1 | Living off grandparent's money basically. |
| 989 | 1 | I work in a semi "professional" job with a certain degree of autonomy...I also make a less than the average wage for my region |
| 990 | 1 | Even though I study, and may have a high income in the future - I'm from a working class enviorment and share a solidarity with working class people, that I don't share with other classes... |
| 991 | 1 | cos i work full time, make 13 bucks an hour, and have a kid to support |
| 992 | 1 | I make less than half of the median household income in the US. |
| 993 | 1 | In a clerical job (non-management) and am in enough debt that I don't have a lot of disposable income. |
| 994 | 1 | I don't own any means of production. |
| 995 | 1 | Who cares? I'm not bothered with it at least. |
| 996 | 1 | I'm unemployed, 40000 in debt and my education has no applicable career option |
| 997 | 1 | Because of my income level and the nature of my labor. |
| 998 | 1 | Due to the economic recession which has been caused by the monopoly on money that the government and the banks hold, which causes massive inflation and less money available for the people. |
| 999 | 1 | i have to work or to say that i would like to, to get my money to live |
| 1000 | 1 | I cannot pay my bills and am currently unemployed. |
| 1001 | 1 | I have to sell my labour power |
| 1002 | 1 | Both my sister and I attend an expensive private university and drive nice cars. |
| 1003 | 1 | Choice. |
| 1004 | 1 | Cause I work and work and dont see jack for it ;) |
| 1005 | 1 | I'm a college student and I work three jobs. I get by on student loans and whatever I make from work. I do OK, but want a lot more. |
| 1006 | 1 | college. |
| 1007 | 1 | Because I'm poor on purpose and work just enough not to be homeless and starving. |
| 1008 | 1 | I have the privilege of remaining unemployed for now, thanks to the modest but sufficient income my spouse receives through research funding. |
| 1009 | 1 | I am employed in the service industry, attend a public university, and I am a renter, own no substantial property. |
| 1010 | 1 | My income tells me I belong to lower middle class. |
| 1011 | 1 | it's hard to pin down a class that i belong to because while i grew up (lower) middle class, i currently make just under $4000/yr and have no financial ties to the rest of my family. so while i don't feel comfortable claiming "poor" because of my background & education, i also am clearly not middle class or even working class anymore. (the money that i do make, just enough for rent & bills, is from baby-sitting a friend's kid.) |
| 1012 | 1 | The only thing I have to sell is my labour. So I live only by selling my labour power, thus making me a worker |
| 1013 | 1 | i'm getting a free college education from the state, my parents are paying my rent, i have no loans and some savings. i'll probably consider myself working class eventually, but not yet. |
| 1014 | 1 | 6 digit household income... |
| 1015 | 1 | Though I'm still in high school, and thus living with my parents still, my job is more and more supporting my life, instead of my parent's money. |
| 1016 | 1 | I work a low-paying job with limited benefits and am struggling to pay my bills, but have access to family money for education, assistance in buying a home, or in the case of an emergency if I choose to accept it. |
| 1017 | 1 | I am a student training to be someone who doesn't make very much money. I can maybe pass as bourgeois but I am not really permitted the sense of security or entitlement that the true bourgeois enjoy. |
| 1018 | 1 | The job I do is white collar, but I don't make much. |
| 1019 | 1 | Even though I grew up with middle class values like reading and dental health--- don't laugh I'm being serious--- I don't make very much money now and I don't see myself as able to have financial agency. |
| 1020 | 1 | "white collar" but in bad financial straits |
| 1021 | 1 | Mostly choice |
| 1022 | 1 | Because i'm studing, so i'm not making any money, neither working for a salary. |
| 1023 | 1 | I can hardly live of my salaries. |
| 1024 | 1 | Duh...because of the money I have made...Working my way to upper class. |
| 1025 | 1 | Never in my life have I experienced the pleasures of not having to live from paycheck to paycheck. Same goes for my parents. |
| 1026 | 1 | I never been in middle nor upper management, and I never had a white collar position, and at this point in my life, I don't think that is going to change. |
| 1027 | 1 | Graduate without a job in my field, yet working, for a poor salary. |
| 1028 | 1 | level of education and working in professional fields (teaching, ministry) |
| 1029 | 1 | Because I have to tolerate a dumbass boss in an alienating job. I get paid to get screwed by my boss. |
| 1030 | 1 | No job, struggle to pay bills, student, rely heavily on my parents |
| 1031 | 1 | As far as this schema goes, I fit into lower middle class because I am a graduate student with a Master's, working towards a Ph.D., and will likely take up a job in science. I was poor/working class for most of my 20s, though. |
| 1032 | 1 | cause it´s hard to find a job in these days of financialcrisis |
| 1033 | 1 | Because I have no choice but to work fairly casualized waged jobs for a living. |
| 1034 | 1 | Decreasing parental support Regularly employed in part-time jobs Use wages for food,etc Pay housing (at my public university) with loans Expect to pay part of tuition with loans due to declining wealth of my middle class parents Future prospects do not look so bright...may end up living a lower standard than that of my parents have/had |
| 1035 | 1 | choose to pursue justice and culture skills that allow me to serve, rather than generate income. |
| 1036 | 1 | Hard to answer. Culturally still very influenced by upbringing, and used to privilege - sense of entitlement. Have trained as a teacher, but cannot find work. |
| 1037 | 1 | That is a question better answering person-to-person or with tons of preparation before hand and thus a question I feel unable to answer within the context of this survey. |
| 1038 | 1 | I'm unemployed after my company got bought out by a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. |
| 1039 | 1 | I work in the creative class and am well-educated, but I don't make very much money. |
| 1040 | 1 | I was brought up in a single parent family, my parent working various jobs (factory, dock work, shop assistant) at different times, while at the same time working on the house we lived in, in order to then sell it for some profit so we could afford somewhere better to live. Most the houses I lived in as a child, to begin with, were proper dumps, but my parent fixed them up. Where, and how, I live now, I have only intermittent work options, and work only occasionally; seasonal work, temp jobs, e |
| 1041 | 1 | I voluntarily choose to not make as much money as I know I could if I were to have a different set of ethical beliefs |
| 1042 | 1 | class definitions are pretty vague, eh? when i work it is as a programmer so i guess i own my means of production, making me hesitate to call myself working class. on the other hand i work for a wage, so... |
| 1043 | 1 | I work for a wage. |
| 1044 | 1 | went to a 4-year university, i have a steady job. also work freelance. i don't struggle to make ends meet. |
| 1045 | 1 | Income, comfort, station, job security, mobility |
| 1046 | 1 | I'm currently on unemployment and not receiving very much. But aside from financially categorizing as working class, I have chosen not to manipulate my privilege as an educated, middle class white person to gain access to jobs that would raise my income and class level. I suppose it both is and is not a choice -- it isn't as though, if I really tried and sold my life to a 9-to-5 in corporate America, I could make a killing. I don't have that much capital. But I could work a job that might bump m |
| 1047 | 1 | I am currently in Education. |
| 1048 | 1 | I'm not poor, not rich. Simply paying as I go along. |
| 1049 | 1 | I'm educated more than well. From time to time I earn more than I currently need. On the other hand I'm an immigrant sometimes and then my background (let me say, my social & cultural capital) doesn't matter much (or sometimes at all). So it happens that at the same time I'm a cleaner in one country and a manager of kind of sophisticated projects in another one. |
| 1050 | 1 | I made a conscious decision that I would never aspire to have material wealth nor have a job that directly contradicts with my beliefs - as a result I will never be a high earner nor be in a position to achieve material wealth. |
| 1051 | 1 | White-collar employment, no real property or wealth. |
| 1052 | 1 | Economic status |
| 1053 | 1 | My salary and social status would qualify as upper middle class. |
| 1054 | 1 | I'm college-educated, culturally-privileged, and comfortable. I've never had any anxiety about necessities (e.g. housing, clothes, food), or felt the pressure of living from paycheck to paycheck; and I have enough disposable income to buy luxury items on occasion. |
| 1055 | 1 | Mothers a hair dresser, father is a finish carpenter, i work part time and go to state college full time. |
| 1056 | 1 | Not Sure. |
| 1057 | 1 | Income is below state median. |
| 1058 | 1 | I'm not really poor, since I still have a roof over my head and am able to go to college, but I don't have loads of money, either. I still have to work to be able to get along. |
| 1059 | 1 | I work in an office, bosses define my hours, my benefits, my vacation time, my salary. My work profits someone else, and though I am a salaried employee, my salary is low and I do not personally profit from overtime or weekend work. Though I need a degree for my work, I am not paid a middle-class standard of living that would adequately support paying off the loans I took out to obtain said degree. Materially, I experience a middle-class standard of living. However, to do so, I have to live in a |
| 1060 | 1 | I work hard for other people, making little money and support myself. |
| 1061 | 1 | I fit the standard idea of a working class american: Long hours, little pay, no benefits, basic wage slave. Rent/squat. No car (though many working class americans have cars). |
| 1062 | 1 | I am only qualified for minimum wage paying jobs. Often even those ask for experience. My inability to gain the experience necessary for those jobs keeps me in a position in which I am barely able to "maintain a living". |
| 1063 | 1 | Unemployed in a rural area due to lack of transportation because of my own bad decisions. (DUI) |
| 1064 | 1 | I don't think I belong to a class. My cultural capital is high (education, artistic talents). My mother now has a doctoral degree which she didn't while I was growing up. She is quite well off and very economically supportive towards me. My father is a respected poet, quite known in the cultural circles of my society. Still he is always broke. |
| 1065 | 1 | I am having a hard time finishing up the Bachelor's degree. I know I can get work companies as I get tons of answers for any job application I do send out. However I do not want to work for anyone even though it would be more profitable than what I am doing now. |
| 1066 | 1 | My partner is petty-bourgeois-that is, she is a small shop owner- and I am a graduate student who waits tables to subsidize my income. Because of the fact that my partner is a shop owner and I live off of loan money primarily, and I come from a middle class background, I do not know that it is fair to identify as working class, though technically I am a wage slave. I suppose this is a complicated question. I also live in the so-called First World, in which the proletarian is heavily subsidize |
| 1067 | 1 | even though i am highly skilled i am a blue collar worker |
| 1068 | 1 | Educated, Valuable (niche) skillset, own property, starting to own marginal capital. |
| 1069 | 1 | my economic circumstances |
| 1070 | 1 | Im a translator. I choose not to work much, but it pays well. |
| 1071 | 1 | I have a white-collar job (self-employed computer programmer) but it doesn't pay very well yet. I'll probably end up upper middle class if I keep progressing, however. |
| 1072 | 1 | Am not going to live off my investments, will have to work for my bread for the rest of my life. |
| 1073 | 1 | Still living off the privileges of the class I was born into (i.e. attending college that parents are paying for) |
| 1074 | 1 | though i currently get by on very little income and the jobs i work don't pay very much, i have a connection to my family who would give me money if i needed it. despite my avoidance and discomfort around receiving financial support from them, the fact that i know it's there puts me in a privileged position. |
| 1075 | 1 | i generally don't work ro have money. |
| 1076 | 1 | I do work to pay my $280 rent, but do not work much more than that. I suppose working is a choice i made in order to stay in a home where I may get a lot done and am not scared of getting kicked out of a squat living situation. Though I do not want to work at all, i do not spend a lot of time doing so. I also do not get any help from my family or other sources, besides food stamps. |
| 1077 | 1 | I do not have a job. I'm still living at home though, so I'm not sure whether that counts... |
| 1078 | 1 | Student debts and expense. study cuts into the amount of work hours i can achieve. |
| 1079 | 1 | I am the supreme leader |
| 1080 | 1 | my kids have all the clothes and toys that they can use, and then some...i have not gone hungry (even if it was only rice for dinner) in more than a couple of years. |
| 1081 | 1 | I am not employed and I receive full government assistance/financial aid to go to college. |
| 1082 | 1 | Postgraduate student. |
| 1083 | 1 | Because I work in the domain i studied in, I have a stable work a little over average salary |
| 1084 | 1 | I am a construction worker active in a large trade union. |
| 1085 | 1 | I have nothing to sell on the market except my own labor. |
| 1086 | 1 | I'm currently unemployed by choice but always employed in factories previously. I now work at producing things that will help push my family and I farther away from wage based employment. |
| 1087 | 1 | There are a lot of thinks to write, but now i haven't the time |
| 1088 | 1 | I work at a job that requires some skills, but is physical labor. My class is somewhat mitigated by my education (the only person in my immediate and extended family to graduate from college). |
| 1089 | 1 | Because I do not want for resources and I am a privileged white, middle aged male. |
| 1090 | 1 | Comfortable living standards. |
| 1091 | 1 | I'm considering where I -will- belong rather than where I am right now since I'm currently in college. I don't know if you consider that to be poor, unemployed, physical labor (aka "working") class, lower middle, upper middle, or whatever. I will note that my major is computer science. |
| 1092 | 1 | High income of parents, high personal income, parents are owner of private property. |
| 1093 | 1 | I'm a student, but i work a job and pay my own way. My parents raised me with love and I've never gone hungry, but I haven't gotten any handouts since leaving home. Also, my parents couldn't afford to support me even if they should be inclined to do so. But aside from all that, I don't own any capital. And I FEEL working class; middle class identity is just a form of conceit that the ruling class uses to keep us divided. I didn't like having to tick off "lower middle class" because my parents |
| 1094 | 1 | Because my father is very good at physics and he loves his job (physicist), so he earns quite a lot of money. I do not work anywhere, but I study at the unviersity and he gives me money for that. |
| 1095 | 1 | Parents' wealth, power in business world. |
| 1096 | 1 | I am an unemployed student. |
| 1097 | 1 | Not much has changed |
| 1098 | 1 | see above |
| 1099 | 1 | I am working in graduate school. So I am poorly paid either as teaching/research assistant or a service worker, but I am a graduate student so I carry a 'respectable' career to some people. |
| 1100 | 1 | I'm just working as a worker, don't have any property and so on. |
| 1101 | 1 | I am finishing up a master's degree and got a moderately-paying job. I am comfortable in my financial means, though my desires for "comfort" are quite low so this might skew my response a bit. I guess if I were to really label myself taking into account both financial and cultural matters, it would probably be "over-educated, under-employed dilettante" or something ridiculous along those lines. |
| 1102 | 1 | I have the education and skin colour to make dollars.....just not the motivation |
| 1103 | 1 | I don't have a job; I only study and teach when I can. |
| 1104 | 1 | Apparently that's what we are according to bourgeois social scientists. |
| 1105 | 1 | Average, post-graduate salary with lots of debt |
| 1106 | 1 | I'm 15 and still live with my parents.0 |
| 1107 | 1 | I am actually currently a student, but I fund my education by doing jobs that could be classified under "working class." |
| 1108 | 1 | On the basis of money earned vs. national average. |
| 1109 | 1 | Gross household income |
| 1110 | 1 | I'm poor and unemployed. Student. |
| 1111 | 1 | Because I want to. |
| 1112 | 1 | Because I work for a living to support myself and my family |
| 1113 | 1 | Because I make enough money to be able to afford most anything I need but if I stopped working for a week I'd fall behind financially. |
| 1114 | 1 | Because I have no money and I work for someone that extracts a profit out of what I do. |
| 1115 | 1 | I go back and forth from job to job, pay all my own bills, and have no debt. |
| 1116 | 1 | I'm employed. |
| 1117 | 1 | short term scenario. finished acupuncture school recently. dont have a clinic or anything yet. help run a community medicine garden volunteer basis right now. writing some grants and stuff doing some almost free treatments for friends and such. should fit better in working class/petit bourgeiouse category by the end of the year. shit i hope so anyways. broke as shit. |
| 1118 | 1 | I work in the service industry making 10 bucks an hour. That pretty much sums it up. It should be noted, I find no self-identity in my class. It's a useful delineation for demographics, but that's about it. |
| 1119 | 1 | Because I'm poor. I work, get paid minimum wage, and struggle to pay the bills. |
| 1120 | 1 | I live paycheck to paycheck. I have no real savings, estate, or inheritance. The majority of my income pays family or personal debt. |
| 1121 | 1 | high education, but low income |
| 1122 | 1 | Trabajo para vivir. |
| 1123 | 1 | After my mother left my father, money has been hard to come by. Everyone able to work has to work to keep the family living in this town house. |
| 1124 | 1 | I live in the usa and make slightly over the GLOBAL average income. I live with my mom, and that sucks. |
| 1125 | 1 | Thats just the way it is. |
| 1126 | 1 | My mother married some guy and sold both their houses and combined their saved earnings. |
| 1127 | 1 | Not rich, but not poor either. |
| 1128 | 1 | I work part time in an office and make minimum wage. |
| 1129 | 1 | I'm currently a pre-proletarian student; and will probably be in a more affluent career than my parents; and my father is a manager with hire and fire powers. |
| 1130 | 1 | Because I am both poor and unemployed, with no forseeable way to be employed. |
| 1131 | 1 | School is expensive as fuck and I'm going to be a poorly paid school teacher upon graduation. |
| 1132 | 1 | Im 42, and have spent the last twenty years unemployed or labouring or studenting. my only tertiary qualification is a diploma in film crew work, and I occasionally get paid for doing that but not often. I live off my labour and my partners labour. she is a librarian. |
| 1133 | 1 | I don't have a job, and I have only a small amount of money. |
| 1134 | 1 | Because my family is considerable intelligent but not loaded. My father is a hard worker and brings in most of the income. My mother is an artisy. |
| 1135 | 1 | Just a guess, class is not terribly important to me. |
| 1136 | 1 | Still in college. |
| 1137 | 1 | Because my time is rented to a corporation. |
| 1138 | 1 | I sell my labour in order to obtain necessities such as food and shelter along with the odd luxury such as a computer, decent music system or a good bicycle. |
| 1139 | 1 | because i am a college student and my parents have pretty much the same jobs. |
| 1140 | 1 | I put Lower Middle Class, since currently I am poor, but will be in this class once I begin teaching in the fall. |
| 1141 | 1 | I work. |
| 1142 | 1 | Our (my wife and myself) occupations: she is a high school department head; I am involved in media production. Our income, relative to our location, suggest "lower middle class". |
| 1143 | 1 | Because I am still a dependent. |
| 1144 | 1 | The level of my education |
| 1145 | 1 | Not rich, not poor. In between, average. |
| 1146 | 1 | I got laid off shortly after informing my employer that I was pregnant. I'm now trying to work as a self-employed massage therapist, but it's hard to drum up legitimate massage clients as a single parent who wishes to remain self-employed/in the home with my child. |
| 1147 | 1 | Chronic difficulties adapting to a 9-to-5 40hr work week doing meaningless labor. I am over educated yet somehow under qualified for most jobs. Taxation really kills my spirits too - its difficult to work hard knowing you are a slave. |
| 1148 | 1 | Worked as a machinist, now attending college. |
| 1149 | 1 | I belong to the underclass largely as a result of unfortunate life experiences, which led to periods of intense depression, which in turn led to leaving school early, which in turn led to more depression, which in turn led to unemployment. Or I don't want to work for "the man". |
| 1150 | 1 | Because I can support my small family with the single income I earn. |
| 1151 | 1 | I don;t have a lot of money (although I have enough to survive), and I don;t have a formal job! |
| 1152 | 1 | I have a college education, the ability to get jobs, etc. but I make >$10,000 per year due to commitments to political work. |
| 1153 | 1 | I haven't accumulated enough capital/skills to go into business for myself as an entrepreneur, so for now, I sell my labor at a discount. |
| 1154 | 1 | Married into a fairly wealthy family and much of that wealth has tricked down to my spouse and myself. We are both students and dependent (financially) on wealthier family members, so I listed those members class as my own. |
| 1155 | 1 | Still dependent on income from family members. Not for long hopefully. |
| 1156 | 1 | I am the description provided above. |
| 1157 | 1 | I am not employed and have very little money. |
| 1158 | 1 | university educated, paid off debts |
| 1159 | 1 | I am a part time student working in the restaurant industry in order to support myself and pay for my education. |
| 1160 | 1 | Because I am poor and often unemployed. |
| 1161 | 1 | I'm 16 and live with my family. |
| 1162 | 1 | Financial success spanning several generations of one side of the family, due in large part to careful investment of funds over the decades, including heavy investments in education. |
| 1163 | 1 | Only classificaton I thought fitted me. |
| 1164 | 1 | Working a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle for necessities that privileged anarcho-lifestylism cannot provide. |
| 1165 | 1 | I have no college degree; my income is low; and I have no job security, benefits, or future career. |
| 1166 | 1 | who cares |
| 1167 | 1 | I have been brought up in a culture where academic studies are the norm, which I find is one of the key differences between the working class and the middle class, if such a distinction is to be made. My parents are now less wealthy than before, and I myself am rather poor. My extended family is a mix of everything from working class to upper middle class, so lower middle class is a pretty good middle ground. However, I don't think the concept of middle class is relevant except as a cultural con |
| 1168 | 1 | I'm a college student who will be burdened with upwards of $20,000 in student loans within the next three years. I have the resources to live a comfortable, stimulating life; but I'll be fettered by debt (and likely other factors) for quite some time unless I win the lotto. |
| 1169 | 1 | I guess based purely on salary, and the freedoms that affords me that many others don't have. |
| 1170 | 1 | Incomes |
| 1171 | 1 | I don't have a job, but I am a student. |
| 1172 | 1 | Between my wife and I, we make a middle class income (mostly her), and she is in middle management, but both of us work for non-profits in human services, meaning we don't bring in the big bucks. |
| 1173 | 1 | I run a business of 50 people doing 3.5 million per year. |
| 1174 | 1 | I work and make just enough to get by but parents help with school costs, so I haven't really 'cut ties' with my class background. |
| 1175 | 1 | thats how capitalism works. |
| 1176 | 1 | Because I am a fairly successful entrepreneur in the software business with a well above average income |
| 1177 | 1 | I'm still a student. |
| 1178 | 1 | Although I foresee climbing classes in the next few years as I just graduated college, I'm currently unemployed, despite a month of searching for a job. I havent worked in almost a year and have been getting by on my live in girlfriends generosity. |
| 1179 | 1 | I consider college to be labor and students to be working class, particularly with regards to community colleges such as the one I attend. Especially considering most of my classmates and myself have to work multiple precarious jobs to even afford community college. Also, no ability to hire/fire create/enforce rule. |
| 1180 | 1 | Parent has job but low wage |
| 1181 | 1 | I'm not sure which class I belong to at the moment because I'm still a student, yet I identify with my parent's class and don't feel like I'm any less able to fulfill my basic needs. |
| 1182 | 1 | My average income is below the "absolute poverty line" of my country (Canada). But i am a student, so i have some chance to finish somehow with a job related to it; and i am accumulating the social and cultural capital that is going with it. |
| 1183 | 1 | Based on income/job/education. |
| 1184 | 1 | I am a wage slave like 99% of everyone else in the western world. |
| 1185 | 1 | I do service work in a restaurant. I have only limited ability to define my own labor. |
| 1186 | 1 | I'm a wage worker without any further capital or resources to draw on. |
| 1187 | 1 | Because I work part-time in a retail environment stocking shelves. |
| 1188 | 1 | I work in community sector, so woefully paid. I'm from a mixed class background. But I have travelled lots, and I have studied lots too, so lots of class privilege. My values are mixed - middle class in terms of food types eg, working class in terms of sharing food and resources. I feel like I'm "acting up" and don't belong in middle class contexts, and aware of my class privileges in working class contexts. |
| 1189 | 1 | I'm self-employed, which means middle class in the technical sense, but I'm in my 50s and have never made more than $40k a year, so I'm hardly "middle class" in the consumerist sense, so lower middle class seems to fit the bill. |
| 1190 | 1 | Because I study. I don't earn anything yet, but I lead a good lifestyle. |
| 1191 | 1 | The way I was brought up, the enviroment I live and work in. I still identify with the beliefs of my family and area. |
| 1192 | 1 | I'm in education. Education is a monopoly supported by the state; that shifts resources to this sector, and so to me, from other sectors. |
| 1193 | 1 | I am a worker. I make enough money to live but not much more. |
| 1194 | 1 | As defined by savings rate, and ability to control what I do for a job. |
| 1195 | 1 | because i havent graduated from college yet. |
| 1196 | 1 | What makes me believe this is the class I belong to, or how have I come to be of the working class? |
| 1197 | 1 | I am attending a relatively 'elite' private college in the US and have the affiliations that that provides me with such as acquaintances, social knowledge, a degree, etc. However, I'm also deeply in debt due to student loans... that and that I will likely have a shit job prolly places me lower than I have placed. |
| 1198 | 1 | i don't have a car, health insurance, or am i able to take vacations. i barely meet my survival needs. |
| 1199 | 1 | I am a wage and free worker that does not live off of capital taken from other workers. (Excluding the third world, but you practically can't wage-work in the US without living off of third world capital) |
| 1200 | 1 | Because of the intrinsic "nature" of the capitalist system in which the top of the pyramidically shaped socio- and techno-economic system thrive on this, wherefore they, in their view, have an interest in the perpetuation of class divided society. |
| 1201 | 1 | Because of my relationship to the means of production ...haha... just kidding. I work a shitty boring blue collar dead end job for less than what I am worth. |
| 1202 | 1 | Relative wealth and opportunities. |
| 1203 | 1 | educated but poor |
| 1204 | 1 | social climbing made possible by free education. |
| 1205 | 1 | Mostly luck. And the fact that North Americans control the majority of the world's resources, so they are much more accessible to me. |
| 1206 | 1 | my job. |
| 1207 | 1 | i depend on my paycheck to live. |
| 1208 | 1 | fighting the state for a living doesn't pay very well. |
| 1209 | 1 | I'm fairly sure I'm just above the poverty line. |
| 1210 | 1 | Because I work a labor job for a living. What a stupid fucking question. |
| 1211 | 1 | Though I work for a living I earn a measly wage. |
| 1212 | 1 | I live on a limited income and eat frugally off home grown vegetables but as a landowner it is hard to deny I am part of bourgeoise. |
| 1213 | 1 | Housing, wealth, income/job title. |
| 1214 | 1 | I had access to college and live in an urban area with a lot of access to employment. I could be closer to upper middle class but I choose to work less to have more time to commit to other projects. |
| 1215 | 1 | Work 40 hours a week for the average wage where I live. |
| 1216 | 1 | location and payscale, I live in the US and near dc, the richest in the country, if not the world. everyone here has a dishwasher for f-s sake. |
| 1217 | 1 | Being upper class is a result of how much money you make. If you are in the top 1% in terms of income, you are upper class. |
| 1218 | 1 | My only flow comes from wages. |
| 1219 | 1 | Only because I still live at home; if I was on my own I think I'd be lower middle class due to having a minimum wage job and still working on my education. |
| 1220 | 1 | My position in relation to the means of production and the degree to which I have influence over my situation in the workplace. |
| 1221 | 1 | Income level. |
| 1222 | 1 | students dont have munnies. |
| 1223 | 1 | I'm consistently underemployed/unemployed |
| 1224 | 1 | although my parents were working class and I remain at the economic standing of working class I was raised/conditioned with a middle class mentality and privilege that still remains despite my finances |
| 1225 | 1 | No job, no prospect of getting a job, relatively small amount of money, no qualifications |
| 1226 | 1 | Because of my job |
| 1227 | 1 | Because of my level of education and salary. |
| 1228 | 1 | as above caring for material things and value asethetic aspects of life more. |
| 1229 | 1 | I live on welfare and have for almost all of the last 30 years. I work under the table at a non-union job that pays $4 per hour plus tips. I would say I'm a déclassé and a dropout socially speaking, definitely not middle class. |
| 1230 | 1 | Don't have a job, hard to find one. |
| 1231 | 1 | I believe this because I'm able to afford my rent and can feed myself, yet sometimes need to steal/dumpster to adequately eat and if I were to live in a different house, with a rent even just $50 more, I may be flat broke. I own very little personal property that is worth anything and doubt myself owning land/a home any day soon, especially considering where I find myself currently living. I also am a nanny & work on a farm and feel as if I the work I do is important yet draining physically a |
| 1232 | 1 | I'm a software programmer, but I'm the sole support of my family. |
| 1233 | 1 | Before retirement, I would have consider myself as white collar. |
| 1234 | 1 | Still live with upper-middle parents and have access to all the a amenities/luxuries that come with that. |
| 1235 | 1 | I come from a working-class background. i have 2 part-time undervalued, underpaid jobs, i am also a full-tme parent. My partner works full-time but all our money goes for, rent, bills, etc. We cannot afford not to work and we are very much at the mercy of the market-plce/capitalism. |
| 1236 | 1 | A complicated answer for a complicated question: I am very happy with my simple yet comfortable standard of living and desire nothing more. I also feel like it is at least the minimal standard of living that can be achieved by all. However, considering those who are unfortunate enough to not be able to live as comfortably, the amount of 'hard work' I do does not correlate directly with the amount of money I make and luxuries I enjoy... most work much harder for much less. |
| 1237 | 1 | Because I feel like I have an income in the upper half of the population but not the upper stratum. As a self-employed writer, I don't feel like I really fit in any of the traditional Marxist class categories (nor do many clerical or retail workers, well-paid by low-power workers like line computer programmers, etc.). "Class" in the U.S. is more about cultural identification than how much money ones makes or what type of work one does. You can make $100,000 in an expensive city here and still be |
| 1238 | 1 | I belong to this class for a bunch of different reasons. 1)A personal demand for autonomy 2)I like my long hair and my facial hair 3)I hate all jobs. Jobs are a complete 100% self-sacrifice to me. 4)Poor education 5)Poor communication skills 6)I hate wearing uniforms 7)I would start out making a wage that wasn't even worth the work. 8)I'm a college student right now and work would screw up my grades and my free time. |
| 1239 | 1 | cheapass wage labour |
| 1240 | 1 | I am a University student implying that I am certainly not working class. My parents make approximately 100k a year. However I live in a very small co-op rental apartment and make every effort not to take funds from them. I rely on myself, sometimes to the point of going hungry when my student loans don't cover all my costs for the year. I work while in university and live a minimalist lifestyle. |
| 1241 | 1 | Because I am unemployed. |
| 1242 | 1 | I attend University on a student loan I pay for myself, I currently work low end jobs due to AZ's shit economy |
| 1243 | 1 | I'm still working my way up, but I'll get there. |
| 1244 | 1 | Both of my parents work to feed us. We make far, far below the |
| 1245 | 1 | Well, I actually think I'm working class because I work for a wage and I don't like terms like middle class. But going by your survey's code, I think lower middle class seems to be where I fit. I'm a student on a good scholarship and my wife is a health professional (above poverty wages but not high wage). I think we're working class (we got bosses, no managerial powers, again, work for a wage and make way less than most blue collar worker in town). Feel free to code how you wish. |
| 1246 | 1 | I work about 20 hours a week with minimum wage and can barely afford housing and food. I refuse to use government assistance. |
| 1247 | 1 | I think in a way, most of us belong to what could be called an underclass. The middle class / upper-class folks are just less aware or more comfortable with their own exploitation. |
| 1248 | 1 | The working class is also a consciousness. I am still middle/management class by virtue of my parents, but identify with the working class and the poor by virtue of political ideology. |
| 1249 | 1 | Educated, working, middle lower class Mexican |
| 1250 | 1 | I am currently a student with no income and a considerable financial debt. |
| 1251 | 1 | I feel being in the working class is pretty natural for a person my age with my education, but I feel that the state will limit my ability to prosper in the future. |
| 1252 | 1 | > Higher professional qualified parents in the top 2% of earners in the UK. > Significant inheritance of property and capital from previous generations. > Current possession of land continuously owned since before the Crusades (in France). > Social circle includes current and probable future Members of Parliament, and intellectuals important to the Opposition Party. |
| 1253 | 1 | It's hard to get a leg up now-a-days. |
| 1254 | 1 | Because I am working in a relatively well paid profession which requires university qualifications |
| 1255 | 1 | 'Cause I grew up in this class and sure don't belong anywhere else. |
| 1256 | 1 | I am a PhD student, so have almost no wealth or job authority, but I find class to be also about culture, education, outlook, etc. I was raised (upwardly mobile) upper middle, so figure I still embody that class, even if I am very conscious of it. |
| 1257 | 1 | I currently hold a masters in theology, and am currently working towards my PhD. While I do not pull a 5 figure job, I still am highly educated. |
| 1258 | 1 | because the system creates these structures and my partens gave me all that support you need to stay in the same "class" or get "higher" |
| 1259 | 1 | My father is paying for my living expenses while I'm in college. He works a low-mid level office job. |
| 1260 | 1 | only half the members of my family have jobs. the others are either unable to find (any type of job) or have stopped looking. |
| 1261 | 1 | 1. I work 40+ hrs a week and have no power to hire or fire or manage anyone. 2. I own no stocks. |
| 1262 | 1 | I am a student at college, so simply attending requires a fair amount of surplus wealth. |
| 1263 | 1 | I think its both about money and attitude. Im upper class because I have a profit hungry attitude. I just decided if I was going to get anything I wanted in life I was going to need money, so I need to get money. Luckily I came from a background that could provide me these resources. I also dont have very much respect for most people. I think most people are pretty stupid, so I am not going to look out for their interests. Im upper class because I value status, and prestige. Now, I dont think |
| 1264 | 1 | The job's in which my parents hold. |
| 1265 | 1 | Because I am a boatbuilder, don't have the means of construction |
| 1266 | 1 | I am working class in the sense that I have no control of the means of production and can survive only through labour; moreover I believe that only such exploited classes have the potential to become "classes for themselves", seize the means of production and defeat the exploiter. (By definition the exploiter class is already a class for itself.) I do not believe that there is any "middle class" that can thus become a class for itself. But I recognise that there is a social layer of relatively e |
| 1267 | 1 | I make as much as the supervisors but I don't supervise. I am compensated like the other hourly workers. My industry has gone though a de-unionization and constant pressure to speed up and do more with less, We outsource a lot of work and use temps from Latin America.The threat of work going to China is constantly held over our heads and there is too much capacity in the industry. It is hell to to work knowing that you can be laid off any time. No Benefits out side of the bare minimum. That is w |
| 1268 | 1 | College |
| 1269 | 1 | Because I am lucky enough to go to university, am likely to always be able to find a job, but never going to make much money. |
| 1270 | 1 | I am a scientist by profession. |
| 1271 | 1 | Believe it or not I am a car salesman. Crazy right? When you work out my pay checks I make just above minimum wage. |
| 1272 | 1 | I have very little money at any given time; I live primarily by driving myself deeper into debt, or on credit. |
| 1273 | 1 | I work 40+ hours a week, take out student loans, and live at home. Live pay check to pay check. I ship and receive in a warehouse. Move pallets. If that isn't working class, I'm not sure what is. |
| 1274 | 1 | I'm professional, yet haven't acquired the material wealth for the upper classes. |
| 1275 | 1 | Wage-slave operating a machine producing a commodity for a capitalist. |
| 1276 | 1 | I did not participate in the university, since graduation of high school I have worked in as a service worker through various stages of under/unemployment. I work to pay rent, utility, and that is all. |
| 1277 | 1 | Because of my job position, salary and subsequent standard of living. |
| 1278 | 1 | I'm not rich and I'm not poor. I'm educated and well-read and don't have any disabilities. I live in the suburbs, in a single family home. It's not that big. also I can't identify myself with the upper middle-class or the working class. |
| 1279 | 1 | because I can't go to any of the retreats, parties, have a car, I dumpster dive to make sure other people in the Federation eat (so I can donate cash). Because work is the only wealth, and if we could only do away with the intelligentia and coordinator class who ineficiently divide wealth, industry, and don't invest in intelligent technology we could all be self-serving ourselves 3rds by now on this planet. |
| 1280 | 1 | Currently enrolled in a Jesuit university. Although in hindsight I am of extreme disagreement with the management of educational apparatus by religious figures. The only way i would be able to attend the university I am is because my parents have good enough credit to cosign for my loans. |
| 1281 | 1 | I'm in this class right now because I'm a student with approximately a fuck ton of debt, but I'll probably wind up between Lower and Upper Middle Class. |
| 1282 | 1 | I have the same privileges from my upbringing. I do not have a job but know if I tried hard I could get one. My education gives me privileges also. I have less money than either of my parents when they were my age but have other advantages they didn't have. |
| 1283 | 1 | I am a student at university, and while I do have to work to support myself, I am able to lead a 'comfortable' life. My immediate family work mostly in white collar jobs and while they aren't wealthy, they are able to pay the bills and have something left over. |
| 1284 | 1 | i'm kind of a mix of middle and unemployed/poor because of my upbringing which is fairly privileged but then i choose to live on a low wage and do volunteer work. go figure what that is. |
| 1285 | 1 | I am educated, I have white previlege, I have enough money for traveling, I get jobs if I want to or can ask my parents for financial support if I need money. |
| 1286 | 1 | Because I sell my labour for a wage. |
| 1287 | 1 | Because I work very hard and I have no dependants. |
| 1288 | 1 | Complex answer wouldn't even suffice, but to over-simplify, I guess it's more by choice than anything at this point. There is no ethical way to take money. |
| 1289 | 1 | Increase in father's income after starting small successful business. |
| 1290 | 1 | Because we are richer than most of the middle class, but we are not raking in millions per year. |
| 1291 | 1 | That'd take a lot more than this block of place to unwind and discuss. |
| 1292 | 1 | I'm not an owner of any significant assets and I'm dependent on my job. |
| 1293 | 1 | Growing up in a class helps you to identify with that class. Growing up poor forced me to live through struggles I may not have had to if I was of another class. |
| 1294 | 1 | Because of my job as a technical specialist and my quite good salary. |
| 1295 | 1 | I consider myself working class, but I suppose since I teach at a college that I can be considered 'middle class' |
| 1296 | 1 | I have a professional, university-educated level job |
| 1297 | 1 | Income-based - although my income being a rather modest government subsidy, one might argue for poor. |
| 1298 | 1 | I am a dependent student being supported by my parent, who is in a mid-level managerial position at a university hospital. |
| 1299 | 1 | I currently have no job and am getting by on my meager savings. Living with friends/relatives when they will have me. Otherwise. I am in the back of my truck. |
| 1300 | 1 | Im unemployed, with no income and massive debt. |
| 1301 | 1 | my english is very poor o.k. i try: to be an anarchist in the real life and to do some things about the ideas of anarchism only yo can be a (oconomic) poor men and in the consecuenz unemployed |
| 1302 | 1 | Feel no connection with the 'conservative' working class political ethics of my parents, or the 'radical' working class politics of the left. |
| 1303 | 1 | My parents work for a non-profit and do not bring in a "lot" of money. |
| 1304 | 1 | I am a worker and am effectively owned by management/the government, I am at the lower rung of the ladder in a class based system and earn little. I also typically identify with this class and not the upper and middle classes. |
| 1305 | 1 | I work; I do not work in a situation which places me in a position of authority over others (anarcho-syndicalist universal consent cooperative) |
| 1306 | 1 | Wage Slave and I earn less then $25,000 a year. |
| 1307 | 1 | Currently I work for a living at shitty retail/service jobs, and have done so for the past 10 years or so. I consider this working class. Soon I will be graduating from grad school, and pursuing a teaching career, so that will make me a professional, though not wealthy by any means. it is a definite change in class position though. |
| 1308 | 1 | I can afford a mortgage, car payment, have a modest amount of disposable income, but am not really saving anything nor able to afford 'luxury items'. |
| 1309 | 1 | I am unemployed and do not receive financial assistance from my parents or the state but recognize my privilege in being able to live rent-free and on dumpstered/otherwise freely acquired food and not everyone has the ability to live at the same level of comfort without money. |
| 1310 | 1 | Because of my position in society in relation to the means of production. |
| 1311 | 1 | ! work as Porter, my income is low and all of my work is physical in nature. |
| 1312 | 1 | Iim employed on a temporary contract which gives me no social security and even though my salary is not bad, officially it's terrible |
| 1313 | 1 | Comfortable living, substantial income but family is not managerial |
| 1314 | 1 | Well, it's not much of a struggle to get by but it's just "getting by" |
| 1315 | 1 | I'm not really working class, in the sence of manual workers, but certainly not upper middle class. I'm a normal person, currently living off of a few hundred Euro a month, with red bills to pay, but I still somehow manage to save a bit extra cash. |
| 1316 | 1 | Because I'm a wage slave that earns under the average wage for the place I live in and in a temporary job |
| 1317 | 1 | I'm currently a student, but I think I could enter the upper middle class after graduation if I choose to. |
| 1318 | 1 | My family is a working class family, but due to the area where we live and its high standard of living i find i have to place myself in the lower middle class through the middle middle class. |
| 1319 | 1 | I am a full time student and am living in a cooperative urban gardening house, and so instead of working full time I prefer to work as least as I can and spend as little money as I can while my housemates, comrades and friends provide each other with free necessities be it from dumpstering food, liberating construction equipment, having community libraries, gardens, etc. |
| 1320 | 1 | Because I sell my time and labour in return for capital to survive on a weekly basis. |
| 1321 | 1 | About to graduate with no money, no job, just volunteer union organizing, but my class is more than my immediate situation and my education and family background give me enough privilege to boost me to lower middle class. |
| 1322 | 1 | Higher income |
| 1323 | 1 | postgrad student with decent chances to get white collar job |
| 1324 | 1 | I'm student and got a lot of debt. University in Canada is expensive. |
| 1325 | 1 | Really, I think there are only workers and exploiters...and I am not an exploiter. |
| 1326 | 1 | i am disabled |
| 1327 | 1 | i work. shop floor stuff. printer. |
| 1328 | 1 | I am unemployed until summer |
| 1329 | 1 | wages are almost at parity with cost of living, difficult to save capital |
| 1330 | 1 | cause u ask me. |
| 1331 | 1 | Lack of income. |
| 1332 | 1 | I'm still an undergraduate. |
| 1333 | 1 | Income bracket and nothing else. I actually only recently joined the ranks of the middle class -- I work doing programming work for a small web design firm. Prior to that I was living in art communes and squatting around. |
| 1334 | 1 | I have a more general capacity towards solving complex problems. |
| 1335 | 1 | After parents divorce, myself, my mom and my severely disabled brother live together. I have been unemployed for two years. When I was employed, I was worse-off financially than now (but worked so as to "do something" with my life). I am about to embark on a degree at a Ivy League class university though, and I'm intent on getting a PhD. So I will be part of the techno-manergerial class eventually. I am intent on using this privilege in service of poor people, nonhumans and the Earth system thou |
| 1336 | 1 | i'm a student so i think prestige of studing in diffrent city makes my belong to upper middle class. but in only material understanding of social class i would describe myself us member of lower middle class |
| 1337 | 1 | Parents are now employed; I do primarily creative/intellectual work instead of working with my hands. Additionally, I have many contacts and networks. Despite this I have a very low income, but I consider class to be less about money and much more about the type of work you're doing, what control you have over the work you do, and who you know. |
| 1338 | 1 | Work in a non-unionized service industry job, pay rent, dont own any capital or property. |
| 1339 | 1 | I think that in the sociological terms that you're asking I am in this class because I have a job that I have to wear a suit to. In economic terms I am working class as I sell my labour for a wage and don't own any capital. |
| 1340 | 1 | Because I don't make much money, but I work hard and long hours, helping out on a farm. |
| 1341 | 1 | Because I am in college and don't have a job. |
| 1342 | 1 | I sell my labor in order to earn a living. |
| 1343 | 1 | Both my parents work in blue collar jobs. One as a heater/air conditioner repair man and one is a lunch lady at a grade school. |
| 1344 | 1 | I don't belong to a class |
| 1345 | 1 | I am a waged worker. |
| 1346 | 1 | work two jobs, very little disposable income. |
| 1347 | 1 | I'm on welfare. |
| 1348 | 1 | Because I'm learning. |
| 1349 | 1 | I am a machinist. |
| 1350 | 1 | Food stamps, no car, irregular work, often dumpster for shit. |
| 1351 | 1 | I make enough to get by. Not rich by any means. |
| 1352 | 1 | I am unemployed and live in relative poverty to many people in this society, but I have a tendency to shamelessly mooch off of the generosity of my friends with cushy jobs as professors or grad students. |
| 1353 | 1 | because i have two children and I can't go completely rogue because generally anarchists aren't structured enough to help me provide my children with a stable community home. |
| 1354 | 1 | I sell my labour for a living. I can neither hire nor fire. I exercise no State powers. My income is not such as to enable me to accumulate significant capital (and thus live off the labour of others in the future). |
| 1355 | 1 | I'm both unemployed and poor, in the sense of being without money. I don't consider this a poor state of being, however. I recognize that I do have white- and male-privilege though. |
| 1356 | 1 | because i do 30+ hours a week in the under paid hospitality industry. |
| 1357 | 1 | Things changed drastically for my family once I grew up a little bit, lost our house, moved constantly from hotel to hotel, then my father was arrested and put in jail. He's out now, but we live in a 2 bedroom tenant with 5 people, I've been unemployed since the fall, my mother is unemployed and my dad has only been out for about 3 weeks so he as well is unemployed. The only jobs I can get hypothetically is manual labor and fast food/restaurants, theirs a real lack of jobs too. You know your in |
| 1358 | 1 | My father managed to go back to school, and is now making more money then he was in my upbringing. Furthermore, I at least have enough money to pay for college, which must be some indication. |
| 1359 | 1 | Well, mom's a teacher on high school and we don't live with father. We never had lot of money, but mother was always respected. |
| 1360 | 1 | Had to leave school and start work at age 17 because family needed the money to survive. |
| 1361 | 1 | my father who was the bread winner has MS and can no longer work. (i live at home) |
| 1362 | 1 | I don't work regularly and don't have a career. I am trying to start growing my own food and becoming self-sufficient and independent from the system. I don't value money much (maybe I should be), I prefer intrinsic value of goods. Therefore by capitalistic standards I am poor. |
| 1363 | 1 | Cause all I can get for jobs is kitchen work, and often those don't pay well, or are hard to stand. |
| 1364 | 1 | I work for a capitalist. |
| 1365 | 1 | My cats like to eat a lot. |
| 1366 | 1 | I work in an office-setting as a professional. I work in a government clinic and make a moderate income. |
| 1367 | 1 | I'm poor and unemployed... |
| 1368 | 1 | I work in a community clinic with SEIU union benefits. I work to live cause there is no support net that could help me very much. I must help myself. Paycheck to paycheck. |
| 1369 | 1 | parce que le profit ne m'intéresse pas |
| 1370 | 1 | I have no income, I'm still completely reliant on my parents, just doing school. |
| 1371 | 1 | refus de la soumission au travail...refusal to submit to work |
| 1372 | 1 | I have a MA degree and have gained a lot of cultural capital. However, I am regularly underemployed and have little in the way of any financial capital. |
| 1373 | 1 | My wife and I combined make twice the living wage for the county we live in. |
| 1374 | 1 | I went to a prestigious liberal arts institution. I can crawl though and should be back at the bottom in a few years. |
| 1375 | 1 | still living in debt |
| 1376 | 1 | I am unemployed and have nor prospects of selling my labour. |
| 1377 | 1 | I have expendable income, attend a local community college and will attend university (paid for by loans, for which I myself and only me are responsible). I own a car (paid for with cash from my high school graduation). I own a fair amount of property (possessions, not real estate). I live in a ranch-style home in a suburban neighborhood. |
| 1378 | 1 | As a poor student who works part-time, I felt that none of the categories applied to me. |
| 1379 | 1 | I am not employed. |
| 1380 | 1 | Becuase I was a wage earner my whole working life. I'm retired now thanlks to pensions the labor movement brought about. |
| 1381 | 1 | Never completed higher education - thusly I am underpaid for my work (programmer). |
| 1382 | 1 | I'm a student in biology for the moment. |
| 1383 | 1 | Because of the definition you gave (middle to upper management). According to the point of vue shown through the question itself, this is how I would qualify my class : my work definition best relate to this definition. In reality though, in my day-to-day life, I do not feel like an upper middle class woman. I feel like any other powerless citizen. |
| 1384 | 1 | my incomes |
| 1385 | 1 | My family would be middle class if it was not for our debt. |
| 1386 | 1 | because i think i have a good salary for my needs. |
| 1387 | 1 | My only source of income is through waged labor. |
| 1388 | 1 | because I make under 10,000 a year |
| 1389 | 1 | The 2005 US Census has my household income around the top 17% in the US. I do not, however, consider myself or any member of my family within the economic or political ruling class. I think we're part of the dominant culture, and indirectly put pressure on classes below us, structurally. However, we are not in positions of direct authority over others; certainly not to an extent to call us part of the Ruling Class |
| 1390 | 1 | Because I don't own any of the means of production, nor am I independently wealthy - ie: I rely on wage labour and/or state benefits to survive. |
| 1391 | 1 | I'm in grad school. I mean, I'm pretty broke most of the time, I don't have any extra money, but I think I live a very privileged life all the same. |
| 1392 | 1 | Asset rich cash poor |
| 1393 | 1 | I do unskilled work, have never had a white collar job. |
| 1394 | 1 | My technical skills are valuable to large, medium, and small corporations and businesses. |
| 1395 | 1 | I have a graduate degree, but work in the public sector making the same wage as my union brothers and sisters that are blue collar workers, i.e. 45K in NYC. |
| 1396 | 1 | Unemployed |
| 1397 | 1 | I work as a cook for my money and no one in my family supports me financially nor do they have the means to. |
| 1398 | 1 | Income level, union-represented. |
| 1399 | 1 | Although I am chronically underemployed and have worked menial/sevice jobs for most of my adult life I have acheiveda a pretty high level of education (M.A). I think that the confluence of my class background, my employement situation and my education place my within the "white collar" realm, but since I am, as was mentioned above, chronically under umployed and have very little income or wealth I am much more near the bottom of the "white collar" class. |
| 1400 | 1 | Because the survey defines it as "e.g. “white collar” yet not very wealthy". And an administrative assistant isn't exactly blue collar. |
| 1401 | 1 | Because my parent's are academics but we're poor. |
| 1402 | 1 | the global lumpenproletariat and global labor aristocracy along with the global petit-bourgeoisie (approximately 98% of humanity) will be disciplined in the forced labor camps of the global post-revolutionary proletarian state... |
| 1403 | 1 | because of my employement situation |
| 1404 | 1 | master degree |
| 1405 | 1 | I created this class ;) see worldslackers.org |
| 1406 | 1 | Because I have to sell my labor in order to make ends meet. |
| 1407 | 1 | My family can afford to send me to college and we're not poor, but I still have to work and it's been very difficult finding a job. |
| 1408 | 1 | Income is $90k/yr |
| 1409 | 1 | Because I have a job that pays for a lot of things that others cannot afford. |
| 1410 | 1 | Net worth. |
| 1411 | 1 | im not rich nor im poor, my family have okay jobs and but still suffer from wage problems and so forth. They still suffer from bureacracy and upper management and upper class bosses, bossing them and lowering their standards. |
| 1412 | 1 | Work for a living. |
| 1413 | 1 | I shouldn't be here but I managed to fuck up my life and I guess shit happens. |
| 1414 | 1 | I work in IT |
| 1415 | 1 | Because I like it. If I get fed up with working, I quit. I often did it. |
| 1416 | 1 | Jobs held over life experience |
| 1417 | 1 | I work a minimum wage job in a warehouse. Enough said. |
| 1418 | 1 | simple... fit the mold or starve in the cold..... |
| 1419 | 1 | I make $60k yearly, in san francisco, that's lower middle w/o kids; it would be poor with kids |
| 1420 | 1 | Because I have a salary which is three time the minimum wage in my country. |
| 1421 | 1 | Due to the kind of work I do and the relative pay I receive for doing it. |
| 1422 | 1 | Monetary |
| 1423 | 1 | High wages, level of control over my work. |
| 1424 | 1 | I'm a student. I'm poor. I don't have much time to work, don't have much money, and am bothered only minimally by it. I intend to work a little in the future, but haven't gotten that far yet. I suppose I'll soon identify myself as "working class," given that beer and gas money are fairly nice things to have, as well as a little in savings to pay some rent or pay medical bills or invest in some land in the middle of nowhere at some point in the nearish future. Mainly, I belong to this class b |
| 1425 | 1 | My husband- he works 60 hours a week, on his feet, for $15/hour, I'm disabled, we have two kids,and a mountain of debt. |
| 1426 | 1 | College education |
| 1427 | 1 | To maintain the comfortable lifestyle which I have come so accustomed to. What do you mean "why"? |
| 1428 | 1 | because I don't have a job......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 1429 | 1 | University degree = nice pay. |
| 1430 | 1 | Because of my origins, my education, and the events and choices in my life |
| 1431 | 1 | Because I am a student, and not quite yet in the workforce proper. |
| 1432 | 1 | I can afford dignified life only if I take a loan. I can afford some luxury just few times a year, but often I'm forced to live in debit. |
| 1433 | 1 | cause i learnt how to live with less money. I could probably change it by getting a stable job but i hope i will never feel need to do it (get a job = less time for my activities) |
| 1434 | 1 | tragic circumstance |
| 1435 | 1 | I am a student. I attend an Ivy League institution, but my GPA suffers. Where my job prospects will land is currently indeterminable. |
| 1436 | 1 | Jobless, no prospects for a high income job. |
| 1437 | 1 | Was raised by a family that only scraped by through defrauding the State, currently am living at what the State deems as the 'poverty line'; am not a property owner, do not own a motor vehicle and am completing a degree via community college. |
| 1438 | 1 | I live on foodstamps and my boss's whim. |
| 1439 | 1 | It will be easier for me to answer in french : Parce que je ne possède pas les moyens de production du lieu où je travaille. Parce que j'ai un revenu approchant le seuil de pauvreté et parce que je ne possède pas le fruit de mon travail. Parce que j'ai des patrons, un horaire de travail et des objectifs de production à atteindre sur lesquels je suis évalué. |
| 1440 | 1 | Becase I have become a translator after graduating from the university, and unlike my past I can make a living with my own salary. |
| 1441 | 1 | because i temp so much that companies won't even consider me for perm |
| 1442 | 1 | because i am 15, and it is the class of my parents. |
| 1443 | 1 | Am a student of 5 years, living on a State-provided student allowance. |
| 1444 | 1 | i make 24K per year. I own no assets. I have a professional job as a clergyperson. I know wealthy people. I own a couple of suits but wear jeans on a daily basis. I hold a supersisory position. |
| 1445 | 1 | le pouvoir d'achat |
| 1446 | 1 | I am industrial worker whose salary is not enough to buy flat and food.. |
| 1447 | 1 | My father's work. |
| 1448 | 1 | Based on salary. |
| 1449 | 1 | salary definition |
| 1450 | 1 | Because I'm "white collar" yet not very wealthy... Duh! |
| 1451 | 1 | I personally have no money and my mother has been divorced several times, losing lots of money each time. I personally consider myself poor or working class, however, I have a huge golden parachute. My mother lives mostly off of savings and inheritance. When/if I inherit money, I will be very comfortable. For now, I am dirt poor, living with her while I attend school and working my way up. When I move out, it will be into a tiny apartment in NH. (I am a member of the Free State Project) |
| 1452 | 1 | I am a sole parent on benefits. |
| 1453 | 1 | Just because i am working and will work under a boss... |
| 1454 | 1 | I went to a nice university |
| 1455 | 1 | I've grown up on food stamps and welfare (later TANF). I'm still on the food stamps, working at a hotel for barely above minimum wage. I've fluctuated between poor/unemployed and working class as I've recently been laid off a few times. But at the moment, working class seems to make sense. |
| 1456 | 1 | (French) : Revenus et conditions de vie |
| 1457 | 1 | Paying a mortgage on a house i 'own' with my partner. In receipt of a grant to do a phd. |
| 1458 | 1 | There isn´t such a strong class system in my country, children go to the same schools and get apply for the same jobs. People that come from other countries tend work in the low paying jobs though. |
| 1459 | 1 | I have more money than my parents had at my age although it could be argued that I chose a life in which i do not rely on state benefits of any kind and have no insurance whatsoever and that could put me much lower on your scale. |
| 1460 | 1 | cause i left the college, and dont have background |
| 1461 | 1 | I'm unemployed just because I can't get a job. This is a hick town, but at the same time, I am not good enough, somehow. I want to get a job in a city, because I think it will be different than this. |
| 1462 | 1 | I'm not rich at all, but I enjoy some privilege in terms culture and ability to direct my life. |
| 1463 | 1 | I am, in fact, unemployed. I haven't been able to find a paying job in two years, and I'm stuck living with my mom, who is working class, at best. |
| 1464 | 1 | Because of my low wage and position in the work hierarchy (i.e. no control over the means of production). |
| 1465 | 1 | I work for a living. In the building trades. By night, I write. |
| 1466 | 1 | |