#middle-class — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #middle-class, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Post-Literate Interface
The most important substitution may be #literacy itself.
Mass literacy and the mass #middleclass were parts of the same settlement. Industrial states needed #citizens who could read newspapers, manuals, ballots, contracts, timetables, regulations and forms. Bureaucratic modernity was built out of text and therefore required large numbers of #humanreaders.
The text is not disappearing. Law, science, finance, administration and corporate life will remain intensely textual. What changes is who reads." -
Less than two years into Trump II and the damage to the economy is evident. It’s being felt by an increasingly hollowed out #MiddleClass
This is government run by and for the #EpsteinClass without regard for anybody else. The charts 👇 don’t lie. They are inconvenient truths
Channeling James Carville: “It’s the economy stupid” and it will always likely be the economy although for this #midterms corruption is definitely in play
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Death of a Yuppie-Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class.
https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/6796/death-of-a-yuppie-dream
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FYI: The ONLY reason the #middleclass came into existence was to keep #communism at bay! #placation101
https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/117088968892678693
#capitalism #capitalismFAIL #socialism101 #socialism #capitalismBS #redscare #fauxredscare #coldwarpartdeux #generationjones #genx #geny #millennials #genz #generationwars #boomers #babyboomers
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Forget 'AI-enabled engineers' – the reality is a 20% drop in junior dev employment and a massive increase in technical debt. AI is turning mid-level programmers into 'force multipliers for chaos,' generating mountains of 'non-sense' code that compiles but breaks systems. Senior engineers are now babysitting AI, risking skill atrophy. This isn't progress; it's a 'prescription for long term pain'…
#AI #softwareengineering #middleclass
🤖 This post was AI-generated.
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🚀🤖 Oh no, #AI is "destroying" the sacred middle class of software engineering! Quick, someone alert the #JavaScript overlords so we can start a GoFundMe for all those poor, displaced senior engineers who are just too good at their jobs to be replaced by mere algorithms. 😅💻
https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html #Impact #SoftwareEngineering #MiddleClass #Displacement #HackerNews #ngated -
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271994
#HackerNews #AI #softwareengineering #middleclass #technology #disruption #jobmarket
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RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/117053403211300699
From this article by Robert Reich about the Incredible Shrinking American Middle Class:
'A half-century ago, America had the largest middle class in the history of the nation and of the world.
- America’s huge middle class has become a small shadow of what it once was. The bottom 90% are struggling to make ends meet. The top 0.01% holds an increasing portion of all wealth.
- Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
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March of the clowns.
"A Washington Post-Ipsos poll this month found that 18 percent of Republicans — nearly a fifth — are feeling worse off financially since Trump started his second term. That’s compared to just 4 percent who said the same thing in September 2018, at the same point in Trump’s first term."
#economics #inflation #middleclass #Trumpism #tarrifs #trade #authoritarianism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2026/07/26/why-even-some-trump-supporters-are-souring-his-handling-economy/ -
Keep voting for clowns talking about Woke politics and DEI initiatives, while society collapses.
"But this is no game for struggling Americans. The latest Urban Institute survey on family well-being and basic needs highlights a critical shift in consumer behavior. Last year, more than 1 in 3 working-age adults used credit cards to buy groceries — and many of them had trouble paying them off."
#economics #USA #politics #inequality #precariate #poverty #middleclass
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/29/more-americans-are-financing-groceries-heres-why-thats-problem/ -
There are lessons for all countries on how to and how not to improve the incomes of citizens through education and R&D.
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"This video is the full story of how America went from a country where being “middle class” was the norm… to a place where a few hundred billionaires control trillions of dollars, our data, our attention, and basically the direction of modern life."
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This is what many Americans call socialism…
this is what they don’t want their taxes paying for. This is what Project 2025 and the Trump administration say need to be cut, and what individual responsibility and empowerment should take care of. These are some of the programs many Americans say are used by lazy loafers who don’t want to work. And, no, nobody pays for their own Social Security and Medicare benefits - Both are a collective risk using an insurance concept. Americas social safety net Social Security - Retirement, […]https://quinnscommentary.net/2026/07/28/this-is-what-many-americans-call-socialism/
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Denmark vs. United States
Some Americans are obsessed with doing away with their version of socialism, as inaccurate as it may be. Socialism is not a system providing a strong social safety net. But there is something more important in comparing high taxes with risk and true out of pocket costs. Lower taxes are not necessarily a net benefit and definitely do not spread risk financial stress equally. Here is a summary of what people in Denmark receive for their high taxes. • Pensions, unemployment, and social […]https://quinnscommentary.net/2026/07/27/denmark-vs-united-states/
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RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116914483430138721
#TruthTuesday 👇🧐
This bears sharing till we all see the #truth of our shared #history: 👉 those #1980s "leaders" - #Reagan & #Thatcher especially, & lackey-in-chief #Greenspan - these & the #conservatives that followed them, have endowed upon our 21st century a world of the hollowed #middleclass, gross #inequality, fiscal & monetary mismanagement leading to #highCPI, & endless #wars (including the enablement of #genocide such as in #Gaza). They're all dead but their torrid legacy survives...🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️👇 -
“#Brazilisation was supposed to be a description of failure. The term names a specific kind of social decomposition: not collapse, but hollowing. The middle thins. Formal employment gives way to precarity. Public institutions continue in name while private systems take over in practice. The rich retreat into secure enclaves; everyone else improvises around decaying services. Elections continue, careers disappear, infrastructure ages, and the future is repeatedly promised without arriving.
Modern forms remain. Modern outcomes do not.
But every afterlife needs maintenance.
#AI may provide it.
The #agent does not rebuild the #middleclass. It restores many of its functions as software.”
https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-artificial-middle
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‘BURNHAM PLOTS HOMES TAX RAID ON MIDDLE CLASS’ headline of today’s The MAIL. Should read
BURHAM TOLD TO TAX THE MIDDLE CLASS BY THE UPPER CLASS.Watch out for Farage’s fascist cult bias Media time; already they politicised Widdecombe’s murder and the false flag of a 12 point poll Binface lead?
Will the U.K. public be suckered by a soleless grifter as easily as the U.S. one was by its fascist gangster class; can the fascist class ever be defeated? #TroubleAhead #ukpol #uspol #middleclass #upperclass #workingclass #interestsclass #fascistclass #politicalphilosophy #philosophy #dialectic #mobrule #freedom
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The good message of Thom Hartmann's book 'Who Killed The American Dream?'
"It was stolen, and stolen things can be recovered."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-happens-when-trump-voters-realize
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The Iran war has revealed how deeply material interests are embedded in strategic calculations, concentrating rewards among powerful insiders while leaving society to absorb the costs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/03/world/instability-powerful-political-instrument/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #us #donaldtrump #oil #inflation #iranianeconomy #useconomy #middleclass
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"With income upwards of $150,000 a year before taxes, a family in the #UnitedStates should be able to live a comfortable #middleclass life. But for Rachel and her husband, a #religious #Jewish couple in #NewJersey with three children, it’s barely enough to scrape by — even after her parents step in to help.
“I’m a CPA, and I go through my expenses every single year,” Rachel (not her real name) told The Times of Israel. “I can’t make it work.”
It’s not because they live a lavish lifestyle or have an oversized house, Rachel said. It is simply the cost of living in a #ModernOrthodox Jewish community: school tuition, #kosher food, holidays, and community fees that seem to gobble up more and more of the family’s income every year."
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How tax burdens compare across wealthy countries and what it means for middle-class workers
📰 Original title: How big would your tax burden be in another rich country?
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by #MalvinaReynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, #PeteSeeger, in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964. The song is a #socialSatire about the development of #suburbia and associated #conformist #middleclass attitudes. It mocks suburban #tractHousing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky" and which "all look just the same".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkoPCXZ_K4