{"id":30998,"date":"2016-11-11T19:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/?p=30998"},"modified":"2016-11-11T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:45:53","slug":"arbeiterklasse-straight-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2016\/11\/11\/arbeiterklasse-straight-talk","title":{"rendered":"Arbeiterklasse, straight talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In der Harvard Business Review<\/a> habe ich einen grandiosen Artikel gelesen, den ich dringend weiterempfehle: „What So Many People Don\u2019t Get About the U.S. Working Class“. Ein paar der Thesen:<\/p>\n

„For one thing, most blue-collar workers have little direct contact with the rich outside of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But professionals order them around every day. The dream is not to become upper-middle-class, with its different food, family, and friendship patterns; the dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable \u2014 just with more money.“<\/p>\n

„Trump\u2019s blunt talk taps into another blue-collar value: straight talk.“<\/p>\n

„But most men, like most women, seek to fulfill the ideals they\u2019ve grown up with. For many blue-collar men, all they\u2019re asking for is basic human dignity (male varietal).“<\/p>\n

„When progressives talk about the working class, typically they mean the poor. But the poor, in the bottom 30% of American families, are very different from Americans who are literally in the middle: the middle 50% of families whose median income was $64,000 in 2008. That is the true \u201cmiddle class,\u201d and they call themselves either \u201cmiddle class\u201d or \u201cworking class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deswegen ist es auch gr\u00f6bster Unfug, von den „Abgeh\u00e4ngten“ zu sprechen. Es geht nicht um Arm oder Reich, es geht um eine Klassenfrage.<\/i><\/p>\n

„While the hard-living succumb to despair, drugs, or alcohol, settled families keep to the straight and narrow, like my parents-in-law, who owned their home and sent both sons to college. To accomplish that, they lived a life of rigorous thrift and self-discipline.“<\/p>\n

„If You Want to Connect with White Working-Class Voters, Place Economics at the Center. (…) Democrats? They remain obsessed with cultural issues. I fully understand why transgender bathrooms are important, but I also understand why progressives\u2019 obsession with prioritizing cultural issues infuriates many Americans whose chief concerns are economic.“<\/p>\n

„Avoid the Temptation to Write Off Blue-Collar Resentment as Racism“.<\/p>\n

„But the biggest risk today for me and other Americans is continued class cluelessness.“<\/p>\n

Letzeres stimmt noch mehr f\u00fcr Deutschland und gilt f\u00fcr die gesamte Mittelschichts-Journalisten-Mischpoke.
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