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Working class might've been a better term

• richthegeek 7y ago
  SE are not working class. At best they are at the top end of the middle range, and generally above 100k is considered 'upper middle'.
  • cge 7y ago
    The idea of SE as working class is from categorization based on labor relations, not on income. In a Marxist-theoretic framework, for example, SE are clearly working class.
    • dragonwriter 7y ago
      Software engineers quite often have and derive substantial income from capital holdings; when they do they are, in a Marxist framework, of the petit bourgeoisie (the middle clsss between working class [proletariat] and major capitalists [haut bourgeiosie].) But, yes, some software engineers are working class, as well, the profession largely being split between the proletarian intelligentsia and petit bourgeois intelligentsia.