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Generally, practices that garner popularity in the middle and upper class have life improving properties, whether physical, social, or mental. That doesn't mean
by geitir 8y ago
Generally, practices that garner popularity in the middle and upper class have life improving properties, whether physical, social, or mental. That doesn't mean they don't create a class barrier, but that's a consequence of financial means more than anything imo.
- lucas_membrane 8y agoTrue, those absurd excesses of conspicuous consumption that do not simulate at least a soupcon of some plausibly life-improving property are seldom flaunted where the other classes may observe, but privacy is itself now one of the essential privileges of the moneyed elite, protected by the same class barriers that lucre's natural owners erect to satisfy their disproportionate need for the life-improving mental feelings of safety and security (from those on the opposite side of the barriers). Any 21st century moralist who does not accept that they are wealthy only in proportion to the number of things that they can do without is a phony.