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04-06-2021, 03:31 PM #26
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04-06-2021, 03:33 PM #27
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04-06-2021, 03:41 PM #28
I was working on a $50 million dollar home for a well known billionaire and come Christmas, this guy buys honey baked hams for every man jack on the jobsite. At that time there was over 300 people on site every day. I saw guys who literally couldn't comprehend the act. They had never seen anything like it.
The clients were a very appreciative and gracious couple. The wife would drag an ice chest full of popsicles around to hand out when it was hot. unfortunately this was not common behavior from our tech titans.
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04-06-2021, 03:51 PM #29
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04-06-2021, 03:54 PM #30
Nope, class isn't quite as sticky as caste as there are no assumed innate assigned properties, whether they are acceptable professions or purity rules. I've spent a good deal of time in India, where caste is absolutely still salient, and while there are overlapping features, it is still very different from class in the US. In some ways it's more like if you mixed race and class together and hardened their ascriptive properties a bit.
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04-06-2021, 03:58 PM #31
I'd define things as-
Upper class= people who live off interest, earnings, dividends, and rent paid for by the labor of others. (probably less than 3% of Americans)
Upper middle class= people who have careers or own small businesses that offer the ability to save and invest for the hope of one day living off the interest, earnings, dividends, and rent paid for by the labor of others either for a short stint in retirement or generationally if cards are played right. (Maybe 10% of Americans).
Middle Class= People who are able to float the image of stability, but have very limited control over their circumstances because of limited resources. Some may own houses with mortgages, some may rent. Cars and big ticket items are leased or bought on monthly payments, etc. Education or medical expenses risk bankrupting the entire family, etc. Small amounts of investible assets may be acquired, but generally not enough for a dignified retirement or hope of creating generational wealth.
Lower class= everyone else. These are the people who pay interest on everything they own, living paycheck to paycheck, never acquire significant investible assets and have no hope of a dignified retirement.
I have no data to make an educated guess on the breakdown of the % of the population who are middle class or lower class. Perhaps being on some form of government assistance is a good delineation between the two groups.
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04-06-2021, 04:11 PM #32
While it is imperative to have enough money to eat and enjoy life, I hate categorizing people into "classes". I'd rather discuss people according to their moral fiber. Mensch, Good person, Douchenozzle. Fuckwit. Not too long ago, I had a family over for dinner. Actually, I think that a maggot was present, too. The father (and wife and kids) were so full of themselves. More than once, he bragged about being in the top 1%. Even in my drunken stupor I grew bored before the end of cocktails. By desert, I was ready to throw them out. No Sambuca for them.
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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04-06-2021, 04:26 PM #33
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04-06-2021, 04:27 PM #34Registered User
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04-06-2021, 04:47 PM #35
What if you eat your lunch out of a baggie on the lift with your gloves on even in snowstorms (especially in snowstorms?) Where does that get me classified?
There's a weird amount of truth in the saying once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag.
Why is there so much pride for me in maintaining that low class lifestyle? I could be Bill Gates rich and I'd still be eating cold sandwiches out of baggies on lifts...
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04-06-2021, 05:25 PM #36Registered User
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sprinter van check
golf sitting by the pool sunday brunch at the country club check
smoking weed out of beer can bowl check
definitions are just ways to put people into boxes to try to lable them who they might be
you guys are slipping
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04-06-2021, 05:27 PM #37
Have you smoked crack out of a broken off car antenna?
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04-06-2021, 06:17 PM #38Registered User
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04-06-2021, 06:21 PM #39
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04-06-2021, 06:52 PM #42Rope->Dope
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My semi-serious answer to this impossible question? Class is defined by your ability to fund convenience across your life.
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04-06-2021, 06:54 PM #43
it’s just a matter of time
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04-06-2021, 06:58 PM #44man of ice
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I don't know about upper, middle and lower. But I do know I am high class. And you cats ain't.
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04-06-2021, 07:06 PM #45
lift eaten sandwiches is just tastiers fer sure.
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04-06-2021, 07:24 PM #46skier
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04-06-2021, 07:39 PM #47
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04-06-2021, 07:44 PM #48
Lower Class: Walmart Bike Shaped Object
Middle Class: Diamond Back
Upper Class: Yeti
(Does not apply if you work in a shop, then you are just low-class)
the Yeti thing is a cliche now, they actually are cheaper than many other brandsForum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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04-06-2021, 07:58 PM #49
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04-06-2021, 08:09 PM #50Registered User
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