The difference between the working class and the middle class

The difference between the working class and the middle class

The difference between the working class and the middle class is that many working classes are afraid to quit their jobs and start businesses, and they live with thousands of dollars every month. Some people even think that the working class lives at the bottom. Let's understand the difference between the working class and the middle class.

The difference between the working class and the middle class 1 The working class refers to those who rely on migrant workers to earn their wages.

The middle class gains income by providing knowledge, or gains profits by operating small-scale production means.

Elite refers to people with higher education, social status, social relations and background.

First, the basic meaning of the middle class

1, physiological needs. This is the most basic requirement for human beings to maintain their own survival, including hunger, thirst, clothing, shelter and sex. If any of these needs (except sex) are not met, human survival will become a problem. In this sense, physiological needs are the most powerful driving force to promote people's actions. Maslow believes that only when these basic needs are met to the extent necessary for survival can other needs become new incentive factors, and at this time, these relatively satisfied needs will no longer become incentive factors.

2. Security requirements. This is the need for human beings to protect their own safety, get rid of the threat of occupational and property losses, avoid the invasion of occupational diseases and contact with strict supervision. Maslow believes that the whole organism is a mechanism to pursue security, while human sensory organs, effective organs, intelligence and other energy are mainly tools to seek security, and even science and outlook on life can be regarded as part of meeting security needs. Of course, once this demand is relatively satisfied, it will no longer be an incentive factor.

3. Emotional needs. This level of demand includes two aspects. First, the need for friendship, that is, everyone needs a harmonious relationship between partners and colleagues or maintains friendship and loyalty; Everyone wants to be loved, love others and be loved by others. The second is the need of belonging, that is, everyone has a feeling of belonging to a group and wants to be a member of the group and care for each other. Emotional needs are more detailed than physical needs, which is related to a person's physical characteristics, experience, education and religious beliefs.

4. The need for respect. Everyone wants to have a stable social status, and requires that individual abilities and achievements be recognized by society. The need for respect can be divided into internal respect and external respect. Inner respect means that a person wants to be strong, competent, confident and independent in all situations. In a word, inner respect is people's self-esteem. External respect means that a person wants to have status, prestige, respect, trust and high praise from others. Maslow believes that the satisfaction of respect needs can make people full of confidence in themselves, full of enthusiasm for society, and experience the usefulness and value of living.

5, the need for self-realization. This is the highest-level need, which refers to the need to realize one's ideals and ambitions, give full play to one's abilities and accomplish everything commensurate with one's abilities. In other words, people must do competent work so that they can feel the greatest happiness. Maslow pointed out that the ways to meet the needs of self-realization vary from person to person. The need of self-realization is to strive to realize one's potential and make oneself more and more the person one expects.

The difference between the working class and the middle class. The working class refers to those who rely on migrant workers to get wage income. Elite is a successful class with wealth, social status and certain social relations and background, mainly including state-owned enterprise executives and wealthy private entrepreneurs. The middle class, mostly engaged in mental labor or manual labor with technical foundation, mainly makes a living by wages and salaries, is generally well educated, has professional knowledge, strong professional ability and corresponding family consumption ability.

Compared with the elite and the middle class, the cash income of the working class is relatively low, the source is relatively stable and the growth rate is relatively flat, so it is easy to predict the future income. These characteristics determine that working-class individuals have more expectations for family financial management.

Many analysts will make a more subtle division of the bourgeoisie. These departments are:

High bourgeoisie: composed of the richest people, including entrepreneurs and businessmen.

Middle class: those who have fixed inheritance property or income are not as rich as the upper bourgeoisie.

Petty bourgeoisie or bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie (petty bourgeoisie. ): A person who starts a business with a small amount of money may hire several employees.

The bourgeoisie includes the big bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie, and the big bourgeoisie includes the comprador bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie.

The basic symbol of the middle class

1, gain income by providing knowledge, or gain profits by operating small-scale means of production;

2. Have assets that meet people's stable living needs, such as houses, cars and deposits;

3. Can fully meet the consumption demand of basic daily necessities, pay attention to the quality of material life, and have certain luxury consumption ability;

4. Have strong cultural and spiritual needs and pay attention to personal social image and social status;

5. There is no great wealth of the bourgeoisie and no social welfare of the low-income class;

6. There is a strong dependence on a stable social environment, and group interests are greatly affected by economic recession and social unrest.

The difference between the working class and the middle class. Does the working class belong to the bottom or the middle class?

I have been troubled by a problem for a long time recently. Probably I found that the bottom employees of our company, including me, are very busy every day. Leaders at all levels above are relatively idle, and occasionally busy making ppt or statistical forms. This phenomenon reminds me of the plot of costume TV series, in which the slaves at the bottom are doing rough work and holding the least money, and the maid housekeeper in the middle urges the servants to work. If he doesn't do well, he will be punished for not eating dinner or playing a few whips.

This is similar to the bottom employees of the company. The little leader watches you work every day and cooks a table for you. Ppt counts how much work you have done, who has done more, who has done less, praised more and deducted a salary from time to time. The society is developing, and now it has more personal freedom and dignity than before, but it is still a slave in essence.

There are a large number of working-class people, with an annual salary of 500,000-200,000. Almost all of them are the most bitter and tired people at the bottom. They created the best value of the enterprise and earned their living wage (if they don't work for a year or two, they won't be able to afford to eat, so I roughly estimate it as life), which promoted social progress. But in the end, people who work hard can make a living, and few people can cross the class (individuals generally take civil servants with official positions or above or medium-sized enterprise legal persons as cross-class and get rid of life and coolies in essence).

At this time, a negative thought appeared: then what is the meaning of our life? This is hard work, just to maintain a job, then make a living and create value, but not to enjoy the value, but to realize that it will not change the reality. The upper class makes the rules of the game, the middle class uses the rules of the game, and the lower class can only make a living by participating in the game, having food and shelter. Which subordinate employee can modify laws and company rules and regulations? The bottom employees have worked hard all their lives, paid energy and time, and are also doing the lowest-level work. At most, they are skilled workers, and their minds are limited to dealing with such trivial matters. If the upper class and the middle class make the same efforts, they will not be surprised to stay in their upper class or middle class.

Become a person who makes the rules of the game at the upper level or who can use the rules of the game at the middle level. Class is invisible and difficult to break, even if the bottom is aware of this, it is difficult to change the status quo. Nowadays, Tik Tok, King, Weibo and other softwares are very popular, and people can see them everywhere on the subway. Most of the people in the street are the people at the bottom. These softwares consume people's time to a great extent, and time passes invisibly. Moreover, you don't have to think about software, which corrupts people's thoughts invisibly and makes the bottom people have no time to think in simple happiness.

Doing repetitive work over and over again, becoming a slave without thinking day after day. Moreover, there are more and more house slaves, and the bottom employees have no confidence to jump ship to resist a small boss for their livelihood, let alone consider other aspects such as rules and regulations. In addition, the people at the bottom spend a lot of time worrying about whether to buy a dress, what to eat cheaply and other lowest survival problems, their own physiological needs. People's energy is limited. In the same 24 hours, it takes 4 hours to think about solving the physiological problems of survival, 8 hours for mechanical work, 8 hours for sleeping, and 4 hours for mobile apps and other software. One day has passed. If you have strong financial support, you can sleep and eat 10H, and at other times you can learn to improve yourself and think more. In the long run, class differences are getting bigger and bigger. The sadness at the bottom is destined to be cut into leeks.

Today, Baidu said that the annual salary is 600,000-500,000 (probably, I can't remember clearly), which is middle class, but I think it is also the output end of mental work and belongs to the hardest people at the bottom of society. I think my150 thousand annual salary is so desperate.