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Originally Posted by Slava
I feel like we talk about class all the time in Canada. It's part of the "we'll just tax the rich and the corporations" lexicon that comes into our election discourse every time. Of course, rich just means people who make more than me and corporations just mean bigger, facelss corporations. It's definitely not our friends and neighbors, or heaven forbid it was about me!
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We might call the poorest 10 per cent disadvantaged, and the top 1 per cent rich. But we don’t like to talk about the important economic and social gradients of the 89 per cent of us who fall in between. There’s a reason Canadian politicians always say they’re fighting for the middle class - they know that everyone who earns between 40k and 400k will think it’s about them.
As owning property becomes intergenerational - renters all the children of renters and homeowners all people handed down money and property, while people choose marriage partners based on property status like in a Jane Austen novel - it will become increasingly difficult to ignore class in this country.