You and I seem to be on the same page here but I want to take this opportunity to the role "middle class" plays in preventing class consciousness.
The "middle class" is propaganda we've been fed for decades by our governments, the media and the very wealthy. It's just another way to pit workers against one another, like how the flames of white supremacy were fanned after the slaves were freed so poor whites wouldn't socially align with freed slaves. It's why politics now tends to focus on socially divisive issues rather than economics, like abortion, LGBTQIA+ people, migrants, Islamophobia, etc.
Doctors are workers. Lawyers are workers. Professional athletes are workers.
The "middle class" is propaganda we've been fed for decades by our governments, the media and the very wealthy. It's just another way to pit workers against one another, like how the flames of white supremacy were fanned after the slaves were freed so poor whites wouldn't socially align with freed slaves. It's why politics now tends to focus on socially divisive issues rather than economics, like abortion, LGBTQIA+ people, migrants, Islamophobia, etc.
Doctors are workers. Lawyers are workers. Professional athletes are workers.