There is a lot of things that are posted in this sub that resonate with me, but I can't help but notice an income disparity in many of these posts that make me uncomfortable for reasons I don't know how to fully articulate.
Like, people will post about quitting their jobs and getting a new one that pays 20k more than their previous salary. I've never even made 20k/year (after taxes) and can't even wrap my brain around that being an addition to what I was already making.
I have done all the services job that the working poor does in the U.S; fast food, restaurants, catering, retail, etc. I'm in my late 20's, a black woman. I always have, and always will, have to work twice as hard for half as much. On average, black women make 63 cents for every buck a white guy makes.
I find it hard to see myself as a part of the same class struggle. I struggle to see how “no war but the class war” can be a uniting slogan when I- and many others like me- live in completely different worlds than other relatively well-off working people. Does anyone else feel this way?