Is this the only way to change the class?

Of course not. However, since the title mentioned Xi 'er Banner, it reminds me of a very interesting question, so I might as well say more. This question is what class the so-called IT middle class belongs to. I remember seeing a discussion about Australian social class not long ago, in which an Australian was quite dissatisfied with the so-called olive society in developed countries. In his view, if a person can be called middle class, he should at least have some ways to support himself without working, such as renting several houses or family trust funds without paying off the loan. On this basis, if you come from a well-known family and have a surname that the locals can see at a glance, it is considered upper class. Besides, they mainly live on wages. When they lose their jobs, they will be deprived of food and even taken over by banks. Whether it is a supermarket cashier with an annual income of 40,000 Australian dollars or a middle-level manager and engineer with a six-figure salary, they are all working-class people who are completely unproductive. According to this standard, there are only a handful of people in Australia who can really be called the upper middle class, but there is never a shortage of snobs who think they are superior. Then this guy is quite a bit of a conspiracy theory. The modern popular middle class statement was actually invented by Americans to promote consumerism. In the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, craftsmen, company employees and assembly workers on Ford production lines were all classified as middle class, not their former working class. Since we have upgraded a class, we naturally need a class worthy of enjoyment and consumption. This is a brainwashing propaganda in itself, and the result of this propaganda is the familiar consumption habit of Americans spending money on food, which also spread to Australia and Japan in the bubble economy era. By contrast, equally wealthy Europeans are far less bold in spending money. Decades later, the wheel of economic globalization rolled in, and capitalists transferred all the manufacturing jobs to the third world. Most of the decent production line work in Rust Belt has become a thing of the past, and it is useless to be a trade union, leaving a bunch of disgruntled black uncles and white uncles as Mr. Chuan's ticket warehouses. However, even in Silicon Valley, the center of the universe, many Americans took their houses and lived under overpasses during the 2008 economic crisis. I vaguely remember that an engineer in China was fired from the news, turned around and took the guy back to kill his manager (you see, even if he lived in a dark room today, he might be worth several meters now). All this, I think the Australian side's statement is quite reasonable. When I just graduated. The internet bubble has erupted for several years, but the internet wave has not yet begun. Many people still play QQ OICQ, and Taobao is still promoted by rogue plug-ins. Unless you can squeeze into those multinational companies, programmers are just a diaosi career in outsourcing companies. At that time, it was the business elites in foreign companies who used foreign names to call each other millions of comprador businesses. The term white-collar class has a great market (I remember that even Microsoft got on this fake ship. When MSN was first opened, it was a white-collar portal and it was impossible to socialize again and again. Earlier, there was the so-called "Huang Ming generation"). When it comes to CBD, office buildings are all kinds of tall buildings, which are labeled as fitness and beauty. Now think about it carefully, what the middle class, generation XX, pulled a lot of things, not pointing to buy buy to buy them, which is basically in the same strain as the propaganda made by Americans in their early years. Therefore, in fact, those paragraphs in the West Second Banner are largely a deconstruction of this tall consumerist marketing through self-mockery. No matter how many P's are mixed, and the annual salary is several hundred thousand, it is just a temporary good luck. Except for a few lucky people who have turned over and become capitalists, most of them are pure wage earners in essence, and there is no essential class difference with people with a monthly salary of 5 thousand. Programmers in the IT industry are mostly science students. They may not have learned Chinese in high school, but Mo Bosang's necklace is still remembered by people. So remind yourself not to waste time and earn more money, which will make Uniqlo feel shabby and feel that cycling will lose its value. If you force yourself to show off your superiority by showing off your consumption, you will not only be cheated of your hard-earned money by the capitalists, but also be teased by your peers. I don't know where the topic owner saw that he could change the class after doing it.