Narrowing equality to within-class comparisons makes self-placement tolerable

Evidence

Equality must be treated within classes, not between them, to be meaningful—and in this way the problem of placing oneself becomes tolerable, or sometimes rather gratifying. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2168

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Class position includes a temporal trajectory alongside its antagonistic relation to other classes — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743; Individualization is institutionalized and reshapes class inequality analysis — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1725