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More than half of Canadians $200 away or less from missing bill payments: MNP (globalnews.ca)
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Just over half of Canadians say they are $200 away or less from not being able to pay all of their bills at the end of the month amid higher interest rates and inflation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if all you have is a job, you're always going to remain working class.

... and why is that such a terrible thing? The world cannot be full of owners, someone has to actually do the work. Is it much more realistic for us to have a comfortable middle, working class than it is to have a bunch of wealth concentrated in business owners while the majority fight for crumbs.

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

… and why is that such a terrible thing?

What suggests it might be terrible? Especially when we are talking about how the middle class, not the working class, is the undesirable option. About how people prefer to be working class – and for good reason. Like I said in another comment,

I’m not sure middle class was ever much of an ideal. It was the outcome of us moving away from the time when most owned farms, with many of them starting to fail as we moved into the industrialization era, and their owners having to pick up jobs off the farm to stay afloat.

As I asked originally: Does the middle class want to exist again? I expect the answer is, for the most part, no.