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Nah. Here in eastern europe it's purely based on incomes. If you go paycheck-to-paycheck, you're working class. If you can afford a nice housing/kids/travel/etc
by mantas 8y ago
Nah. Here in eastern europe it's purely based on incomes. If you go paycheck-to-paycheck, you're working class. If you can afford a nice housing/kids/travel/etc, you're middle class. If you got a mansion w/ a gardener, you're probably upper class.
Tradesman who makes €€€ can easily be considered middle class. Meanwhile if you're a poor kindergarten teacher... You'll probably be upper working class at best.
- barrkel 8y agoYou're basically talking about income category rather than social class, at that point. Class is fundamentally about a kind of pecking order for judging appropriate company, a shorthand for determining if people will be able to relate to one another.
- mantas 8y agoAt least here, there's no separation between income category and social class. Either you make money or you don't. You feel special in some obscure way to claim you're upper class? Well, go hang that on your wall, nobody gives a fuck about it outside of your private circle where that paper translate into money or respect or whatever. If you want to talk education... Then there're smart people people who have no good manners. People who try to copy aristocratic manners but who're stupid as fuck. And lots of other combinations. But it's subjective at best. Nor most people care about that. I don't see how people could be sliced into "appropriate companies" in very few categories. At least that's how it goes over there. I could see how what you're saying might stand true with some blue-blood old-money. But even in countries like UK it's far from clear cut, at least in my experience.