You miss my point: professors (and other academics) are not
middle-class. Maybe they once were - a few hundred years ago - but not
today. Today, they are very decidedly working class.
Indeed, perhaps people have heard of the book, The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists. You could substitute academics for the
painter-decorators therein and you've almost got the situation we're in
today; a sitation where the majority of workers (academics or whoever)
think they're better than the others, of a better class, apart from
those below them. But actually, we're all in the shit together - the
"middle classes" are those who are a little bit below the upper
(controlling) classes...
Further food for thought: I'd say it is the middle and upper classes who
are taking advantage of tax-havens such as recently described by the
Paradise Papers.
A slightly different take on what I am trying to say: we live in a
globalised world, where there is a ruling class (the Trumps, Putins,
Royal Family etc), the middle class (those who pretend they have power
such as the majority of politicians, and those who we call "rich"
players in society like sports stars, actresses and actors, and other
celebrities), and then everyone else (academics, doctors, teachers,
builders, office workers, etc). And yes, "everyone else" in this example
are the working classes.
This is reality in the 21st century. I think it's high time people
removed the blinkers from their eyes.
Best wishes,
-- Andrei
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 04:32:37PM +0000, Nigel Waters wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:32:37 +0000
> From: Nigel Waters <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, Andrei Morgan
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> Subject: Re: Republican House Members Think a $450K Salary is Middle Class
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> When I was hired at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, in 2007, almost no faculty member was making $450k -- at that point probably not even administrators (Deans etc.) or even the Basketball Coach (highest paid person on campus). If you were hired to teach a one off, one semester course you got paid about $3,000. To be middle class in that category you would have to teach 150 courses a year. LOL
>
> The salary of one full professor in our Department (Geography and Geoinformation Science in a College of Science) was in the $80,000s. He had had a very productive career and was in his 60s.
>
> The situation was not much better when I left in 2014. In fact some things were exactly the same.
>
> $450k in the US is not middle class. End of story.
>
> Nigel
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> I'd agree that people who earn $450k might be middle-class - I think
> that most of us nowadays are actually working class, we just like to
> delude ourselves into thinking otherwise.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> -- Andrei
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:57:46AM -0800, Sean Arseo wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:57:46 -0800
> > From: Sean Arseo <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Republican House Members Think a $450K Salary is Middle Class
> >
> > Speaking as an American receiving his sociological training at an American
> > university, I will reiterate what others have already pointed to, that
> > "middle class" has so many varied connotations and delineations within the
> > contemporary population that a vast majority of the population identify as
> > "middle class". It would seem that identifying $450K as "middle class"
> > actually undercuts the typical Republican argument ("we are all middle
> > class") and that it's pretty poor politics from a purely cynical and
> > analytical perspective. More than anything, though, it is meant to sow
> > disinformation and hem together cross-class collaboration to support their
> > tax plan (as the original article indicates); a way to say "we feel it too"
> > when they have little idea of what possibly actually living in this country
> > means with the real median level of income.
> >
> > In this way, I would reframe the argument that there's "no objective basis
> > of class" in EP Thompson's famous analysis of class production, that class
> > (and its "consciousness") must be actively constructed. There are still
> > objective conditions (e.g. unequal distribution of wealth; relations to and
> > ownership of production, like financial investment) but that doesn't mean
> > that recognition of shared way of making a living automatically translates
> > into shared acknowledgment of problems.
> >
> > Best,
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> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Harry Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
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> > > Americans think unionised workers are middle class, too. So go figure.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2017-11-17 01:44, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > >
> > > Laugh, cry, get angry? The latter I suppose .....
> > > http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48189.htm
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