So, good news for the #MiddleClass. Only super rich ppl. destroy environment. No need for change to prevent #ClimateChange. 🙄 🤭 The Left is on your side. 😉

The #MiddleClass boom promised with it an urban lifestyle closer to that of young graduates in the metropolises of western #Europe and the #US. #China’s educated younger generations are overqualified for factory jobs, once the bedrock of China’s economy, but have struggled to find meaningful work to take its place.

In 2021 more than 70% of unemployed city-dwellers aged 16 to 24 had a degree.

Have we reached peak China? How the booming middle class hit a brick wall
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/have-we-reached-peak-china-how-the-booming-middle-class-hit-a-brick-wall

Hi all, if your fall teaching focuses on class, politics, and/or culture in the Global South, I would be happy to zoom into your class to talk about “Identity Investments”: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32853 #sociology #Chile #middleclass

Why isn't there a law against auto checkouts? #ai #fear #middleclass #bard #chatgpt #eliza

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66661815

“But the analysis discovered one major change: The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lowered. Instead of trickling down to the middle class, tax cuts for the rich may not accomplish much more than help the rich keep more of their riches and exacerbate income inequality, the research indicates.”

#tax #taxes #inequality #rich #middleclass

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

American society is augmented via #abramhamic #karma to make the bottom and tops of our #CasteSystem look like a tolerable #middle or "equal" group to sustain an #existentially average state of being ... Or at least, we did

#existentialcrisis #middleclass

Chandrayaan-3 Scientists: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, earlier this year, had rightly said that the middle class 'is a big force' behind India's prosperity and development. And our scientists proved it on Wednesday evening.
#Chandrayaan-3 #Triumph #ISRO #MiddleClass
https://www.news18.com/india/with-chandrayaan-3s-triumph-how-isro-scientists-are-inspiring-the-middle-class-8547695.html

At the Stanford UP booth at ASA with Marcela Maxfield, my editor, and my book! https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32853 #sociology #latinamerica #middleclass

(16 Aug) - UPS drivers’ new 70k per year deal shows that unions (and Joe Biden) may just save the middle class after all https://fortune.com/2023/08/08/ups-drivers-170000-union-agreement-teamsters-middle-class-bidenomics/ #UPS #Teamsters #MiddleClass #Bidenomics #Unions #Drivers #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110896608186460520

UPS drivers’ new $170k per year deal shows that unions (and Joe Biden) may just save the middle class after all

https://fortune.com/2023/08/08/ups-drivers-170000-union-agreement-teamsters-middle-class-bidenomics/

#UPS #Teamsters #MiddleClass #Bidenomics #Unions #Drivers #Politics #News

One of the #loophole the #rich use to pay less #taxes . Why are the #wealthy given these lucrative #taxbreak and not the working #middleclass ?
#Republicans #trump #hispanic #maga #qanon #women
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-avoid-paying-taxes-trusts-130035059.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9uZXdzL20tYWR2aXNvci13ZWFsdGh5LWZhbWlsaWVzLTctMjAzMzM3NTM1Lmh0bWw_X2d1Y19jb25zZW50X3NraXA9MTY5MTU5ODg4Mg&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMk41F3QGnTCOVH4CizmTzqtrgnB2mLwVQgO_1WZ4frkOZfazQK4AMPtckoePLe9SdSWVMbOi-MTvGtvzaaO3XoQ6tfJfSYN9xWkH4YfFwWSRp2naPrwzH2Dn8SsW2p8eMJHHEr0hQYYimec-WvIeFO0Gi3D9SfLuFEpwJCmJi_m&_guc_consent_skip=1691599291

🤣🤣🤣Per #8, the RICH are the #Communists as they're the ones who destroy the #middleclass. This figures seeing that the current economic regime is "Communism for the rich and Serfdom for anyone who isn't". #EatTheRich

As an excellent example, the convergence of an XR chapter with a local squatters movement. The climate activists recognizing the synergy of place-based "generative refusal" (Leanne Simpson) with the squatters, and getting involved in place-based resistance and a strategic material intervention to change the system in that city. Same story with Atlanta and #StopCopCity ...

... whose work has resulted in hundreds of people — including the middle class people and workers, who seem so elusive to other climate movements — getting involved in mass protest and advocating abolitionist and ecological perspectives to local government. Example here, from a firefighter in Atlanta talking abolition perspectives to the government:

https://twitter.com/MarxistUnityDSA/status/1665861210598785027?s=20

"If you listen to any of the #StopCopCity public comment, you can hear how deeply abolitionist frameworks have taken root––so many people, whether identifying as abolitionists or not, articulated a vision of safety dependent on resources and relationships, rather than policing." — @micahinatl

(Posted on Groundtalk here: https://groundtalk.land/#2023-07-30T12:31:19.48+00:00)

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActivism #StopCopCity #LandDefense #WaterProtector #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #squat #autonomous #abolition #atlanta #movement #MovementBuilding #MutualAid #strategy #organizing #activism #anarchy #anarchists #solidarity #pagan #antifa #decolonize #DualPower #labor #MiddleClass #workers #unions

A #mathematical fact: The upper 1% can well consume double that of the lower 50%. And still 90% of consumption goes to the middle class. The 49% that were not mentioned probably to greenwash themselves.

You can sure say, oh, but I'm middle class I'm not changing anything. That's up to you. But don't excuse yourself. You are as guilty as anyone who doesn't start immediately with a revolution.

The poorer 50% might be excused. Busy fighting for survival. You too the contrary just don't want to get your ass up, or are afraid of simple repressions that are standard to the poor.

#greenwashing #middleclass #ClimateChange #climatejustice

In case you #fediverse peoples haven't noticed, the #middleclass is no more. You got the working class, the petit bourgeois at the lower end of the upper class, and then the rest of the monied. Everyone else is struggling under the fucking #grindculture.

I've got to get a second job while trying to take this free online class in web development. The next 8-12 months are going to be brutal. This would have been far more feasible if I were 22 years younger. All this so maybe I can earn more.

No one CEO is worth over $100 million a year. Big cooperations weren’t paying these ridiculous CEO payouts 50+ yrs ago. The biggest con job happened right under our noses. This #wealthtransfer went from the #middleclass to the #ceos. — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-wall-street-journal_meet-the-ceos-who-pull-in-more-than-100-activity-7085853017802948608-5cHy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

"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 #tickytacky", and which "all look just the same".
https://youtu.be/UCK3AG60oe0

The US Middle Class’s Economic Anxiety Will Decide the 2024 Election | Unemployment is at historic lows. Inflation is moderating. And America’s middle class is stressed out about the economic outlook.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-bidenomics-middle-class-economic-anxiety-2024-election/?srnd=premium&sref=xuVirdpv

#Bloomberg #MiddleClass #EconomicAnxiety #2024Election #Unemployment #Inflation #Politics #News

Education is a fundamental right, not a privilege. That is why it should be free and available at community colleges and public state universities.

#usa #us #freeEducation #students #studentloans #Education #freecollege #middleclass #loanforgiveness #equality #equalrights #freedom #diversity #socialjustice #justice #opportunity #growth #development #rights #Public

#Biden is too #foolish, too #lazy, too #relaxed, too #old, too #rich, and too #disconnected from #ordinary people. Biden is #powerless to #protect the #US #middle class. Biden is doing nothing to ease the #economic #pain of #middleclass. Biden is #delusory; he believes that the US #economy will continue to grow. He believes his administration's crooks, who paint phony economic statistics with pink numbers. Biden must #resign. And with #Trump as well... They're both tired old fools.
#election2024