[powowowow]

Your example was also fatally flawed because it buys into the notion that white collar work is not working class.

White collar laborers are labor; they are not capital.

I make a couple hundred thousand dollars per year. I have far more in common with a nurse or a teacher or a store clerk than I do with somebody who was born with $10MM in a trust fund, and who makes as much as I do (by selling my full-time labor) just by buying and holding VTI.

[uk_programmer]

Blue collar work means physical labour typically. White collar means office work and traditionally office work has been done by the middle class and the elite.

I will concede that In the last decade or those definition probably don't make any sense.

So maybe I should have said "traditional working class" to make the distinction.