blue collar worker

Someone who inherits a successful business from their parents, receiving several million dollars in salary and bonuses annually.

Blue collar workers often successfully parlay their wealth into political office, usually by virtue of their eloquent and well-reasoned critiques of minimum wage-earning elites.

As a lunch-pail carrying blue collar worker, Mayor Ford found it hard to make ends meet on his skimpy government pay without also retaining his private-sector salary.

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