The concepts of classes and strata can clarify objective and subjective differences. Again, an example: a medical doctor who has private practice and makes $200,000 per year has to pay for his own health care and save for his own retirement; a medical doctor who is employed by a hospital and paid a salary of $200,000 a year gets part of his compensation in the forms of employer-subsidized health care and pension in which the other doctors at the same workplace also participate. The self-employed medical doctor works out his own taxes; the medical doctor who is an employee automatically has his employer deduct taxes from his paycheck. The same income, different classes, different objective and subjective interests. -- Yoshie
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