This wouldn’t work today as, often, craftsmen are paid more and are higher on social ladder than clerks. How would you adjust the criteria for modern-day working class check?

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    What? I understand this doesn’t really matter for your question but bolsheviks did not… A giant chunk of the Party was intelligentsia, just see Lenin’s biography. IDK where did you find that BS, bolsheviks didn’t shoot people left and right.

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      Family story. Maybe a fake one, I don’t know, there’s nobody alive to ask any more.

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      I think that was just a set up for a fun question and probably wasn’t meant as part of a history lesson.

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      Is it really so ridiculous that armed people blinded by a belief system could do that?

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    Do you own a property/house/unit/flat that someone outside of your family lives in and pays you to live there.

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        They said “do you own” a property that other people pay you to live in. That’s the upper-class part.

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          Comrade, I wait tables for a living. Tell me again how not being able to pay my mortgage on my own makes me upper-class.

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            Just because the owning class exploits you, does not mean you are not also exploiting someone.

            Plenty of stories about a long term “roommate” master tenant who charges other roommates market rate that exceeds the mortgage.

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            I’ve heard people who wait tables make a lot of money. When I have said previously that people who wait tables should have a minimum wage, people who wait tables have got quite angry.

            I’m being sarcastic.

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            Do you a) Own a property b) that you don’t live in c) that other people who are not family members live in d) and those people pay you?

            If not, you’re not the subject of that comment. If so, congrats on being in the very narrow overlap of the Venn diagram for waiters and landlords.

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      I approve, mostly because I would pass this one, even though I’m a desk jockey.

      Honestly, could easily be quantity, quality and condition of yachts, though.

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      Depends on how you define “nametag.” I work at Amazon in an office, and we all have to wear badges, from the drones like me to the senior VPs. Same thing will be true at a lot of companies.

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    Their ability to smile and nod while getting yelled at for something they can’t fix.

    May not be applicable to certain trades, but in general if you’re able to tell people to fuck off, you’re relatively financially secure.

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    Stalin would visit everyone and ask for a single spoon of grain. If you were able to fill his giant spoon all the way, he would eat you alive.

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    This post is unsubstantiated hearsay! You should know better than to make claims without any sort of evidence to back them up!