> Is anyone else offended by this elimination of half the population in
> trying to characterize the working class?
>
> Carrol
One problem is that there is no 'Average Joe'. He's a myth, not a reality. I like the following description much better--
http://2changetheworld.info/docs/part2-05-uflp-2-friends-en.php#a05tms
Its too long to quote here, but if you look at it you can see that to come up with an 'average' out of that clearly just obscures who the class is and what their potential is.