Learning today that its middle class to use a ~โ‚ฌ500 bicycle but working class to own multiple ~โ‚ฌ20'000 hauliers

April 10, 2026 - 12:32 UTC

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This from @tomflood.bsky.social captures the sentiment pretty well...
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or โ‚ฌ2,000,000 in farmland
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Also, eating beans and lentils - middle class, but steak and cream - working class. It's a mess in this country, it's like the signifiers of class from 1910s manchester is the only way we can think about it.
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And God forbid you care about the land or a habitable climate... Immediately you're middle class and often weirdly specifically from D4
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Ah yes, the elitistโ€ฆbike.
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but a haulier truck that doesnt haul for a week and just parks? I'm really struggling to understand how this work for these guys - have none of them normal work commitments so have trucks but on social?
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Seems to be mostly contractors with enough heavy vehicles they can spare some for the protests while the rest continue operating for their businesses
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โ‚ฌ51,000 for a Ford: working class lad.

โ‚ฌ500 bike (I bought in 1999): bloody elite.
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The entire way we talk about class in this country really is hopelessly confused, totally preoccupied with immaterial signifiers of taste, culture and education at the expense of actual material relations of employment and capital production
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The colloquial understanding is terribly outdated, what we typically think of as โ€˜working classโ€™ is mostly limited to a gendered perception of a man without a college education in a skilled trade or driving profession
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Someone smarter than me said "social class" (the signifiers) and "economic class" (revenue source) are completely divorced.
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I've seen profiles online for lads that own two or three of those small tankers that carry home heating oil supporting the protests..it's completely unregulated andnthey're all the notorious gougers, already know of multiple instances where they refused to give the originally contracted amount ๐Ÿคฃ
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