Jack.
You aren't working class.
You have never been working class.
You will probably never be working class.
Nobody is shafting you.
You are the one doing the shafting.
I come from a working class family.
My Dad did what he called the 'walk of shame' every Monday when he was a kid.
Do you know what he did?
He walked to the money man at the end of the road with my Grandfather's Sunday suit. Got some money for it so that my Grandmother was able to put food on the table.
Do you know what he did on Friday evening?
Went back to the money man with my Grandfather's pay packet and retrieved the suit. The local kids mocked him.
He was 7 fucking years old.
That is working class.
It also lived with him his entire life, to the point where he made sure that it would never happen again.
Despite leaving school at 15 to work for the bread man and then finding himself fighting in WW II as a teenager, he was able to eventually go to college.
While he was in college he had two jobs and supported my Grandparents, who by then were unable to support themselves.
My Mother's mother was a maid who cleaned the big houses. My Mother's father was a miner.
She was working class.
She also was able to go to college because she got good grades. The first person in her family to actually finish school. And she had not a penny.
When they moved in together they had a tea chest to sit on. That was it. I still have that tea chest.
You are not working class. Stop appropriating that term to suit your agenda.
I repeat. You are not working class.
Get a fucking job.
Edited to add: Sorry, right now I am furious. I am furious for all the people that know what it's like to be working class. I'm furious for both my dead parents who worked so bloody hard their entire lives. I am furious.