In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of a proletariat class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labour to live. Specifically, it is applied to the condition of lack of job security, in other words intermittent employment or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.[1] The emergence of this class has been ascribed to the entrenchment of neoliberal capitalism.[2][3]
The term is a portmanteau obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.[4]
- That's me and my family to a 't'.
- That's more or less how we live - paycheck to paycheck.
- That's why I really have no friends - I'm too ashamed to admit how poor my family is because of me and the financial situation we're in.
- That's why I hate traveling - it's too fucking expensive and too evasive on me. I just don't feel like having my crotch felt up at the airport by some asshole who's only real reason to do so is because they can.
- That's why I loathe talking to my siblings and parents - because it's too pathetic and sad to explain the reality of how much of a fucked up situation I've put myself in.
And if this can believed, a lot more people are going to be like me very soon.
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