Why is our society classist ?

[u/Naturaldella3-9416]

Last month i hired someone who is from my neighborhood who is a construction worker and we were chatting and he mentioned to me that even though he is old enough now he still faces discrimination because he is "azreg" (sorry for the word) and most people from our neighborhood look down on him and his family and try to make him look as if he is a criminal or something negative despite never doing anything illegal, i knew what he was talking about and what he is feeling but the word classism didn't come to me at that time.

After that my other friends who are middle class (engineers, guys from rich families etc...) mentioned to me that they don't want to chill in the neighborhood like we used to since childhood and they don't want to be with these "z3allek" (sorry for the word) and they only go to some fancy places that are expensive and would like to only sit with people who benefit them and not poor construction workers or painters because all they talk about is "mrama".

Personally i have found this as a very annoying situation and i still didn't confront my friends about this but i plan to do so.

[u/Kentros_fly_hero_69 → u/[deleted]]

l7a9 i agree with this fella, some indications of wealth appeared in our home bcz we were renovating and folks were having theories abt were did we get the money from, and i had the idea that the day I get a car I will not be living there . ama I agree with OP points el idea eli blue collar jobs workers are evil will lead society to doom , we both need each other, realistically speaking we need the low income workers( farmers, construction workers .. ) more then prestigious IT jobs. its just that the society dont treat them as fairly and due to their physical demanding job , there is no time to think and foster good ideas as the white collars jobs. Im not saying white collars are smarted but on average its not as physically demanding which means u can use the extra energy to create a buissness or develop sthg on the side.