You are middle class though, no? Your parents are wealthy and you are a small business owner and homeowner with enough money for plastic surgery, many clothes and expensive perfumes. That is not working class under anyone’s definition.

My parents are wealthy, however I am one of three and by the time they go there won’t be much left. I’m self employed (sort of, technically I’m classed as an independent contractor by a company really ought to be my employer, I do not employ anyone and I do not own my own means of production ) and clothes and plastic surgery are business expenses, they are things I need to do to work.  It is similar to say truck drivers who receive what appears to be a very large paycheck but when you subtract maintenance, fuel and so on, it is much smaller. I make a Semi-okay living but there are a lot of expenses to doing what I do, equipment, having to look a certain way or I wouldn’t be able to work, and so on. Are dock workers working class? Cause they make like twice what I do a year and have benefits. As to perfume, I get a lot of gift cards.

Working class isn’t just about a paycheck, it’s a relationship to capital. Middle class is a silly and deceptive category, when Marx defined the bourgeoisie as the middle class it was as owners of the means of production, above proletarians and below the aristocracy. I do not make a living by owning stuff instead of doing stuff, I am not an employer or in any of the professions (doctor, lawyer etc). Sex workers are generally classed as lumpen proletariat.  Because I lack the capital to own the means of production, I am a proletarian. Because my work is unstable and has no (and in fact may have negative) social capital I am a lumpenproletarian.

This whole thing smacks of “BUT YOU’RE NOT REALLY POOR IF YOU OWN A CELLPHONE” logic (I’m not living in poverty but “You’re not working class if you own nice clothes and perfume” comes from the same logical place)