At 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 clai

At 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.