What I actually believe about class and class politics.

Isaac Saul : I've been told "you're out of touch" more than I have at any period in my life.

Saul: The comments have been eating at me, but I felt like people were criticizing arguments I wasn't making.

He says he's never written explicitly about class or class politics in Tangle 's newsletter.

Saul says he has experienced some class-related struggles and not others.

John Sutter : My family was "house broke" during my childhood, but struggled to afford to keep up with it.

Sutter 's parents were living on the margins of what was manageable in the middle class, he says.

He says a lot of his close friends’ families were in visibly worse shape than his own.

The economic downturn was devastating.

John Sutter : "I've been broke and lived paycheck to paycheck, but I've never gone hungry. I've lived with a parent as an adult in the workforce, like many millions of young American adults.

I consider my upbringing incredibly, unbelievably, unfathomably fortunate, as anyone who had a similar upbringing should consider theirs.