Do you think the underclass in America will revolt someday?

What Letsrun doesn't recognize is that the underclass are here and they are you. Since Trump, the world pities the US.

Ignore main stream media wrote:

If any class would revolt I would expect it would be the middle and middle-upper class. That is the group of people that will be hit the hardest with tax increases and a move towards socialism. If the Democrats have their way the lower class will continue to get more and more "free" stuff, paid for by middle and upper-middle class tax payers. Eventually it could come to a breaking point where the middle class get tired of working their butts off only to see a larger and larger chunk of their income going to pay for those who are lazy, take no initiative or responsibility for the own circumstances, and just want hand outs.

But those middle and upper-middle class incomes are generated by profits made by the working-class.

If you go to work and have no income-generating assets; you're working class.

There will always be an underclass warring with each other. Too naive to understand that they’ve been played. They’re like puppets or sheep.

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Ignore main stream media wrote:

If any class would revolt I would expect it would be the middle and middle-upper class. ////.

But those middle and upper-middle class incomes are generated by profits made by the working-class.

If you go to work and have no income-generating assets; you're working class.

Exactly. Capitalism is underpinned by a poor working class. When you get to the stage where you have a large uniform middle class, and little poverty (like Australia), you can no longer manufacture competitively, and you then 'hire' the poor working class of other countries, eg China, making their middle and upper class rich.

Ultimately will lead to China assuming the role USA has (temporarily) held.

As an aside, the comments about poor people being lazy (yes the same poor people that make the middle class be middle class), shows the lack of understanding.

And let's face it, if you are middle class, have to work to pay bills, you are working class, and you are in no position to criticise.

Liberals "Imagine a world without money or possessions cause money is the root of all evil. So give me your money"

With socialized medicine, there will be more general practitioners. Maybe the ophthalmologists and dermatologists of let'srun will tell you if they are putting in time treating covid-19 patients. I doubt the specialists are seeing covid-19 patients. I believe I addressed your concerns.

Underclass needs leadership to inspire uprising.

I think the gap between poverty and comfort is really small. People are too lazy to see it.

The gap between comfortable and billionaire is huge.

God I hope so but as long as it's just Democrats & Republicans, probably not. Our political parties serve the same class.

So many people who make 50k-250k think that they're balling. The ruling class spends all sorts of money to convince these folks to look down on whoever doesn't make as much as they do instead of looking up and seeing how little they really have. The super rich aren't just super rich -- they have 1/2 of the wealth in the entire world. Something is gonna give at some point.

Kudos to them, they spend their money to make the rest of us compete for scraps and we do it. We do their bidding. We shame the poor. We get more frustrated at stimulus checks versus tax breaks. Everybody think they're gonna end up rich when they statistically are set to finish in whatever class they were born into. Even if you do reasonably well -- how well off are you really? And why shouldn't we take care of one another if the wealth exists and just sits?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Nope.

I'm dirt poor.

I work a low wage job and help my elderly mother and another not-so-well relative.

Jeff Bezos and Amazon have saved me trips to pet stores for cat food, long grocery trips, the shopping rush, and have allowed for almost anything to be delivered. Their drivers even wear masks. I've seen it.

The CEO of Ginny's has allowed Christmas gifts to be delivered.

Bill Gates put a lot of money into the vaccine effort.

They have saved lives during this pandemic.

I'm on their side.

Billions for saving us? Sure!

Thank you for highlighting my point. I think your interests don't align at all with billionaires and that you should align your interests by class.

Billionaires participate in some light charity to distract us from taxing them. When we realize it's a drop in the bucket when they do something good & that it's really just a PR team orchestrating stuff like that maybe we can stop idolizing them and seek some real distribution of wealth so things don't have to be so awful for so many of us.

Farmer in Chehalis, Washington wrote:

trickle down lies wrote:

No I did not. Food service, cleaning, Amazon warehouse are minimum wage hourly jobs with bad or no health insurance. That is NOT middle class. It’s the working poor, or underclass. Maybe in a stretch the “lower middle class.”

I know a few people who do that type of work (and did it myself in my younger years) and "hard-working" is not the descriptor that comes to mind. There are lots of good-paying gigs that don't require any education.

Yo. Have you ever been to Salvadore's in Chehalis and tried their mole? Arguably the best mole on the planet. I have a wealthy friend who lives in Chehalis.

Well, you have the underclass, the working class, the upper class, and perhaps the most comfortable and secure of all, the do as I say, not as I do government class. So-called public servant Dr. Birx: owns three homes in three different wealthy areas, including the rather pricey beachfront community of Fenwick Island, DE. Fenwick is just a short bike ride down the coast from the Biden compound and a fabulous place to hold multigenerational family gatherings. If you're not in the government class, you're being played. Perhaps all of the above should revolt against the government class.

Then you're not dirt poor. And this is the perfect example of why there will no chance of a "lower class revolt". There really aren't that many really poor people. Everyone is comfortable at their different levels. The rich know this.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Nope.

I'm dirt poor.

I work a low wage job and help my elderly mother and another not-so-well relative.

Jeff Bezos and Amazon have saved me trips to pet stores for cat food, long grocery trips, the shopping rush, and have allowed for almost anything to be delivered. Their drivers even wear masks. I've seen it.

The CEO of Ginny's has allowed Christmas gifts to be delivered.

Bill Gates put a lot of money into the vaccine effort.

They have saved lives during this pandemic.

I'm on their side.

Billions for saving us? Sure!