@baslow I’ve seen various attempted social movements claiming that "we’re worth more than this" and failing on the long run, or getting enclaved on the border of the campus (in their presidence-assigned buildings), because they would fail to positively describe the world we'd want to live in. The cultural/advocacy part for any marginalized community is very important; pride comes among the most salient aspects of such a culture, and the French private television, although required when I was a teenager for my overworked mum’s mental health (resting mentally for half an hour), has made me ashamed of coming from the lower class, sort of deserving poor treatments like low grades, which are by the way an education disaster, but also kinda useful to keep a strong social hierarchy across generations. If people feel too ashamed to even claim a decent way of life, and this might be especially true for our declining middle class, then they will merely see the world in terms of what they oppose to, what they need, and not in terms of imagining a better society that would be worth spending nights figuring out what it could be and how to get there.