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This has powerful implications I believe in the United States and other nations that are made to hold the tacit communal belief that they are a largely middle-c

This has powerful implications I believe in the United States and other nations that are made to hold the tacit communal belief that they are a largely middle-class society. Certainly, you could classify these groups in a closed process and operate to exploit their individual wants and desires, which is something existing models of capitalist industry engage in already. However, what if Facebook were to do this all transparently? For example, being sold something with the explicit revelation that your economic class is the primary consumer?

VLM 9y ago
The patent seems to be based on defining class solely on the dollar value of last years income, whereas the actual measures of class membership take other forms. There's nothing wrong or useless about advertising based on W-2 income level; but that won't have greater sociological effects on economic class or whatever. Of course via the magic of widely shared credit reports, everyone already knows actual class breakdowns based on class differences in personal balance sheets and other measures.