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Classes are not defined by the amount that they are paid. There are only two of them in capitalist society: working class, and capitalists. When people refer to the 'middle class', they do not mean a different class than the working class, they mean a managerial or educated sort of profession that relies on skills that are not related to manual labor or the sort of service or monotonous task based jobs associated with 'lower' classes, in order to effectively divide the working class into opposing interest groups. Hence, when one disparages sanitation workers, they are propagating a narrative that benefits the ruling class by making 'middle class' dupes feel superior to fellow members of the working class in spite of being a part of the same class, and allowing members of the working class to in turn feel such hatred for the way they are treated by the 'middle class' to be easily manipulated by the powers that be.