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Originally Posted by Sybarite
If you have to sell the labour of either hand or brain in order to keep a roof over your head and food in your belly, then economically speaking you're working class.
The idea of those people who do blue and white collar jobs being from different classes is a purely social one – much like the sort of definitions that marketing companies use to describe their target audiences (A, B etc).
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This conversation has made me ask myself a question although the thought has been on the tip of my mind for ages. Is there a writer, of any nationality, fiction OR non-fiction, who looks across the classes in their society and gives an objective (and hopefully humorous) view of several of them including their own? The tendency is almost inevitably to favour ones own social milieau and give a distorted view of the others, to agree with the reader who notes we confirm our prejudices. The "others" are stereotyped, if only romanticized. It would require someone who has extraordinary empathy and ability to pick up the subtle nuances of the culture of the other. The meaure would be how alive and whole the descriptions seem to be. A perceptive reader would know.