Class Structure

American

Class Structure

Investment Class: income from investments

Oligarchs: the top .001% of the world’s society able to rig the structures of power to serve their private interests.

New Nobility: the super-wealthy class (.01%) just below the Oligarchs they have the means to serve their private interests via lobbyists and campaign contributions.

Upper Caste: the technocratic professional class that manages the Status Quo for the upper classes. This includes wealthy entrepreneurs and owners of enterprises: rich but not rich enough to rig the structures of power to serve their private interests.

Salary Class: Salary with benefits

The Deep State: an unelected, unaccountable, wielding state power.

Upper Caste: Technocratic professional class that manages the Status Quo for the upper classes. This includes wealthy entrepreneurs and owners of enterprises: rich but not rich enough to rig the structures of power to serve their private interests.

State Controllers: Well-paid government administrators with ironclad job security and power.

Middle Class: Wage-earners and salaried employees, owners of traditional sources of financial security: primary assets are family home and 401K-Roth IRA retirement funds, however due to high levels of debt; many qualify as debt-serfs / wage-slaves despite their ownership of middle-class status signifiers.

Wage Class: Hourly wage with little or no benefits.

Mobile Creatives: Self-employed independents, entrepreneurial sole proprietors with adaptive skills collaborating with other Creatives rather than have employees, majority having full or part-time conventional jobs.  Their credo is trust my network, not the corporation or the state.

Working Poor: Households with earned income; insufficient to secure the basics of middle class life as many qualify for social welfare programs such as food stamps and Medicaid. Due to high debt, many qualify as debt-serfs / wage-slaves.

Gig Economy Precariat: Supplementing insecure employment (limited hours and zero benefits) with gig work, combining cash work and juggling several delivery / eBay sales / rideshare gigs. The difference between precariat’s and Mobile Creatives is precariat’s are in survival mode (high debt and unreliable income) unable to acquire assets (stocks, bonds, real estate).

Welfare Class: Income from welfare programs

State Dependents: labeled as poor those with cash from black-market/criminal derived income often live better than the working poor, due to generous social welfare benefits.

Working Poor: Households with earned income; insufficient to secure the basics of middle class life as many qualify for social welfare programs such as food stamps and Medicaid. Due to high debt, many qualify as debt-serfs / wage-slaves.

Gig Economy Precariat: Supplementing insecure employment (limited hours and zero benefits) with gig work, combining cash work and juggling several delivery / eBay sales / rideshare gigs. The difference between precariat’s and Mobile Creatives is precariat’s are in survival mode (high debt and unreliable income) unable to acquire assets (stocks, bonds, real estate).