Tuesday 3 June 2008

We Are All Proletarians Now

Says Phillip Blond.
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6 comments:

  1. Patrick Carr4 June 2008 at 00:18

    Do you read him or does he read you? The opening was yours, surely?

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  2. David Lindsay4 June 2008 at 00:25

    We both read each other. (We are not just admirers of each other's work, we are even friends on Facebook.) And yes, the opening is lifted straight from me. A sign of something, with any luck...

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  3. Anonymous4 June 2008 at 09:33

    The opening may be yours, but it simply isn't true. A middle-class couple with both parents working will, in the vast majority of cases, be more than able to make ends meet. Unless they're spending their money really stupidly.

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  4. David Lindsay4 June 2008 at 15:38

    Well, you clearly have the David Cameron/Tony Blair/BBC definition of the middle class. A wildly inaccurate one.

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  5. Anonymous6 June 2008 at 11:35

    Anonymous said.......

    "A middle-class couple with both parents working will, in the vast majority of cases, be more than able to make ends meet. Unless they're spending their money really stupidly."

    Surely that was the whole point of the article? They may both be working but they don't get anytime to spend together or spend any quality time bringing their children up properly!

    However, that being said I think there seems to be far more emphasis on families wanting "it all" in terms of material possessions. Watching these property programmes everyone seems to want playrooms for the children, en-suite bathrooms and all the rest then they complain that they have no money or are all too busy working to pay for it all.

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  6. David Lindsay6 June 2008 at 15:16

    And the television industry seems to have the same definition of the middle as Anonymous 9:33.

    Just look at all that televised cooking, gardening, holidaying, and property acquisition and renovation by "ordinary" people. They have decidely extraordinary incomes, but television producers think that they are the norm.

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