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 (DIR) Post #Aq9f7Lze4DTypKDHNo by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-01-16T23:25:06Z
       
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       I can't believe I've never encountered Michael O. ChurchVia @BillySmith, I read his remarkable 2012 taxonomy of three distinct "ladders" of social class, within which sit 13 social classes. It's perceptive and useful and filled with trenchant social commentary. And accessible only via the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20180528153508/http://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/2012/09/10/the-3-ladder-system-of-social-class-in-the-u-s/ 1/
       
 (DIR) Post #Aq9fFbMgncXiolvOkK by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-01-16T23:26:38Z
       
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       In 2021, he revisited the issue: "Marx was right. If there are stable social classes, there are exactly two of them." His 2021 worldview is darker, sadder, and rings too true. https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/a-reply-to-alex-danco-revisiting-macleod-and-the-three-ladders-in-the-wake-of-trump/They're long! I recommend reading them both. /fin
       
 (DIR) Post #AqAGBeUiuzmdfaf8wy by BillySmith@social.coop
       2025-01-17T06:20:26Z
       
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       @interfluidity The second article is a much more sobering read, but we already have the technology to build a fairer world for everyone.As a species we have had all the tools since the 1850's but it has rarely been implemented.The creation of the UK's NHS is one example of how it can work well, though the current attempt's at dismantling the NHS shows that the defend function is not operating as well as it should.https://social.coop/@BillySmith/109323948119824524
       
 (DIR) Post #AqAY4qgYzbBWcx6e4e by otfrom@functional.cafe
       2025-01-17T09:40:54Z
       
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       @interfluidity small red flag in the 2021 article near the end that makes me worry (calling hooking up a sexual perversion)In my ignorance I have to admit that I don't know who this person is
       
 (DIR) Post #AqBjEh2mzI9eH4MJ7I by BillySmith@social.coop
       2025-01-17T23:20:40Z
       
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       @interfluidity I can't help feeling that he's forgotten that justice and fairness is something that we create.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS5Yw_YsHA
       
 (DIR) Post #AqBxwyw5E4wPrgEcRE by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-01-18T02:05:35Z
       
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       @BillySmith just in how bleak he has become?
       
 (DIR) Post #AqWH7GWkSd1BbsCTrM by tartley@mastodon.social
       2025-01-25T20:23:50Z
       
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       @interfluidity @BillySmith Thank you for posting this. As a working class raised Brit living what I consider a middle class life in the USA, I've been trying to map my uninformed notions of class onto what I see around me, and this provides a marvelously illuminating framework by which to do it. Strikes me that spreading these notions has great social benefit.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqWH7HQl6NoyPaPDA8 by tartley@mastodon.social
       2025-01-26T15:51:07Z
       
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       @interfluidity @BillySmith in fact, when I'm back at a real keyboard, I might create a diagram of this as the central component of my own write up, to post to Facebook, as part of the long campaign to try and reach friends and family lost to misinformation campaigns. With attribution, of course.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqWH7IIHtMdh5bRxb6 by tartley@mastodon.social
       2025-01-27T17:04:41Z
       
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       @interfluidity @BillySmith FYI that domain is online, but with a different URL scheme now, so a working non-wayback URL is https://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/?p=573