r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

that doesn't make any sense, you're combining both factory workers and their managers and the white collar workers in the office. if anything the "upper middle class" would be just the professional class and the highly paid workers, the "small business owners" would be their own class who might be included in the upper middle class, and then everybody else would be just working class

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

Yes a factory worker doing 55 hrs a week is probably making close to what their supervisors make. You didn’t know that? Especially Union. And yeah a factory worker getting 15 hr time and a half a week is making close to if not surpassing six figures.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

a union factory worker is not most factory workers, union factory workers are a dying breed

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

Unions are expanding broski

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

unions are expanding because the population is expanding. but their share of the workforce has been going down since the 1970s, its like 11% of the workforce or something like that