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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Does that title really require someone to be FROM the working class? I always thought it was more about who they fought for.

Take Che Guevara, for instance — the guy was from an upper class family who could afford to send him to med school. So was Marx, whose father was lawyer with a comfortable income who could afford to have all of 9 children (though not all of them survived). And John Lennon, who wrote the song that inspired the meme, had already had an enormously successful musical career and was quite likely a multi millionaire by that point.

Also, Bernie Sanders is a millionaire as well but still widely considered a hero by the working class because that’s who he fights for.

Point is, my understanding is that “working class hero” isn’t so much about the class membership of the hero themselves, but it’s simply whomever the working class considers a hero. That can of course include members of the working class as well (say, firefighters who risk their lives saving others, for example).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"millionaire" is not quite the same measure of impressive wealth that it used to be. A million dollar "millionaire" from 1974 is equivalent to 5.4 million dollar "millionaire" today.

Heres a calculator if you want to check against your birthday https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1974?amount=1000000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Thanks, bro 🙏