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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s too much of a nuanced subject to apply a sweeping generalisation, as was originally/ flippantly applied.
It’s funny but when was young working from home was the direct opposite of that assumption. Working from home was more associated with licking stamps and stuffing envelopes, or niche craft enterprises.
An amazon warehouse worker can earn as much, potentially more, than a Virgin Media telesales advisor.
So, I take your point, but given who said the original statement I don’t think he was applying a more considered view, such as yourself.
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I didn’t consider the statement particularly controversial.
It, clearly, wasn’t intended to say all middle class people are at home and all working class people are at workplaces. However, as often on the forum, statements get interpreted in absolute terms for the purposes of putting up a straw man to argue back against.
In your own post here you’ve made a generalisation based on observations when you are young. My observations are that the vast, vast majority of my friends, family and colleagues working from home I’d consider middle class.
The vast majority of people I encounter in their workplaces are observably working class. As with my friends and their families that I’m aware of attending workplaces.
It’d be interesting to see the stats.