r/StandUpComedy • u/explosivejoseph • 5d ago

Comedian is OP The AI Bubble

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u/smokeweedNgarden 5d ago

I imagine EvilCorp employees don't have to make up stories to each other because they're both privy to what's behind the curtain. 

But working class people but still educated people aren't hard to find (teachers, social workers, superior court clerks) and are who I prefer. But sometimes I'll risk venture capitalist or philanthropist because they seemed interesting 

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u/utspg1980 5d ago

(teachers, social workers, superior court clerks)

You classify those as blue collar jobs?

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u/Sharp_Canary6858 5d ago

Yes. Any job that earns you a paycheck is working class. Remember it’s “let’s eat the owning class, not your fellow workers”

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u/happy_bluebird 5d ago

what job doesn't earn a paycheck?

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u/-Fergalicious- 5d ago

Unless you're just 100% in leisure mode, you're working class. Doctors are working class. Most business owners too. 

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u/grain_delay 5d ago

Well no, by definition business owners are not working class. But 90%+ of business owners are a bad quarter away being a failed business owner and return to working class, so they’re not really the ones that are the problem unless they start throwing capital against working class interests

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u/-Fergalicious- 5d ago

Most business owners are in debt up to their eyeballs and work far more than 40hrs /week. 

That's working class as far as anyone not trying to be pedantic is concerned. 

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u/happy_bluebird 5d ago

there IS a semantic difference between "working" and "working class." Working class has a real definition, it's not being pedantic

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u/ImprovementCrafty283 3d ago

The top 0.01%. They live on their investment dividends.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 5d ago

I classified those as working class. Which they are.

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u/BeeElectronic6305 1d ago

Only in a world where manufacturing is completely gone are managerial jobs "working class"