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Working Class
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Middle-class Americans, like myself and my fellow seekers, have been raised with the old-time Protestant expectation that hard work will be rewarded with material comfort and security. This has never been true of the working class, most of which toils away at wages incommensurate with the effort required. And now, the sociologists agree, it is increasingly untrue of the educated middle class that stocks our corporate bureaucracies.
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― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.... I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape -- but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community -- to society?
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― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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