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Mon Jun-04-07 10:01 PM
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45. a definition that makes Michael Jordan and Katie Couric and I

all 'working class' is not a useful definition. Once you start getting $40 an hour or more for your labor, you are no longer working class. You've got your own little piece of the surplus. You are not in the same class as a guy making $7.15 an hour.

Also by that definition, a farmer was not working class, neither is a small business owner who makes, say $15,000 a year (except I never made that much in my businesses).

It might have been Marx's or Debs definition, but this is America and it's the 21st century.

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