Petty-bourg reactionaries masquerading as the working class have been carried conservatives to electoral victory at least since the days of Reagan, so it's kinda cool that the new Spiderman incorporated this phenomenon. One of the most destructive attitudes in America is that hard work in traditional blue collar positions is more legitimate than hard work in white collar positions, even though the most poorly-treated and disrespected American workers tend to be those locked into shitty part-time jobs at malls or fast food restaurants.
Something I see a lot are right-leaning folks like Mike Rowe who claim to celebrate working class people while really just valorizing the act of work itself, usually suggesting that particularly unpleasant work deserves more than the shitty jobs that involve air conditioning and computers. While I don't think Mike Rowe has bad intentions, shitty work is an aspect of our society that needs to be minimized rather than celebrated. Treating farmers as heroes and fry cooks as moochers is very reactionary, because this hard labor evangelism comes at the expensive of other working class people, like retail clerks or nurses, who work all day doing shit jobs but don't get a TV show because they're not wearing overalls. Mike Rowe also usually celebrated workers who, despite having shitty jobs, either owned their own business or had a viable path for advancement. While I don't to trade my current film gig for a career raising hogs, that kind of job offers a stability and financial independence that working class people don't enjoy, because even the farmer who works in pig shit doesn't have a boss to answer to. Considering this, it's really suspicious that conservatives who go on about hard work and bootstraps never mention the millions of day laborers and farm workers in America, who work just as hard and dirty as Mike Rowe would like yet have no means of being their own boss or even making a living wage.
This omission has some particularly nasty implications when you consider that dirtier blue collar jobs (steelworkers, farmers) have long been associated with traditional norms of masculinity and of whiteness. Reactionary movements have celebrated workers without helping them since before the USA existed, because hard-working laborers are a nice mascot for traditional values, a noble savage upon whom you can project your own attitudes of white supremacy and self-reliance, in contrast to the soft-handed city folk who would rather vote for a more progressive set of elites. When Trump devoted a whole graph of his speech to
ordinary, hardworking Americans, he wan't talking about the millions of black and brown women scraping by at a retail job for less than $10 an hour, and he certainly wasn't speaking about the millions of Spanish-speaking immigrants who work so hard with so little regulation that a farm worker dies on the job
every 22 hours.
The petty-bourg perspective of Michael Keaton's character is very common on the right, and directly enables an anti-worker agenda in the insinuation that small business owners who get their hands dirty the
real workers, and not those lazy minorities who suck up our tax dollars even though they've never driven a tractor or fixed a tire. Mike Rowe and Mike the Vulture are not working class people, and their role as small-time employers usually positions them in direct opposition to the interests of workers. Ceding ground to their agenda harms working-class causes like the unionization of retail workers, because small-time capitalists like The Vulture can't squeeze as much profit out of organized workers. It's cool for a comic movie to showcase real-life villainy for a change.