The upper middle class' opinions and reflections on business seem to be shifting in this environment. It seems less mutually beneficial than it used to be.

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cowanon77 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of upper middle class people recognize that AI is a direct assault on their livelihood. The very jobs that AI threatens to disrupt are the bread and butter of the upper middle class.

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JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-]

"The median family income of a student from Stanford is $167,500" [1]. Not poor. But not trust-fund rich.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...:

	▲	mixmastamyk 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What percent getting financial aid?
	▲	BizarroLand 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A good majority of those will be from 2 income families, so each making about $40/hr, fairly normal in any middle class suburb near a metropolitan area.

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rvnx 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Considering the price of Stanford, this is more bourgeoisie than middle class

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JumpCrisscross 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> this is more bourgeoisie than middle class

The bourgeoisie are literally the middle class [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie

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rvnx 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> The bourgeoisie are a social class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_class#Bourg...

There is even a funny article here: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bourgeoisie-primer

There is more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/hilk3e/trying...

So, if you want to play it safe, you can say, "it's the upper middle class that own the businesses and factories"

I'll give it to you

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JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> No, it's the rich middle class

The "no" is incorrect. Some people use it to refer to the upper middle class. But this betrays the term's original Revolutionary as well as Marxists roots, and I'd argue, is inherently incorrect.

The main reason we blur these lines is because we want to call our poor middle class. And our rich don't want to admit that we're rich.

> it's the upper middle class that own the businesses and factories

I.e. everyone with a 401(k). (Two fifths of Americans have no material shareownership.)

If you don’t own equities or real estate in America, you’re poor. If you do, you’re middle class or rich. And if you’re middle class or rich and confused which you are, if you have ever chartered a private plane you’re rich, if you haven’t you’re the bourgeoisie.

	▲	rvnx 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The main reason we blur these lines is because we want to call our poor middle class. At least something I agree with you, it quite makes sense

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orochimaaru 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What I was about to say. I’m pretty sure most of the students walking out have a trust fund way more than what I have as savings.