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> the situation makes your point about "they have to conceal it to be treated as human" ring totally false They can smell it sure, but their reaction is propor
by nyxxie 7y ago
> the situation makes your point about "they have to conceal it to be treated as human" ring totally false
They can smell it sure, but their reaction is proportional to some product of distance between their socioeconomic positions and how much shame the other party signals. Pretending to be poor is demonstrating shame of one's higher position. In your case, this seems to have been enough to placate their less privileged peers.
- joe_the_user 7y agoBut it really occurs to me, the rich aren't acting poor to fool the poor. The rich don't care about the poor and don't encounter them that much. The rich act "poor" to fool themselves or just flatter themselves, to tell themselves they face challenges or just because their idea of the poor is romantic. Back in college X, lots of folks dressed vaguely dock workers, with lots of plaid and such, but no one trying to actually seem a dock worker. It was just a starting off point for a pose. No, the rich are ashamed but aren't ashamed to you, they're ashamed to themselves.
- shadowbanme 7y agoI think you’re forgetting the two rules of fashion: 1. Do what those above you do. 2. Whatever you do, do not do what those below you do. If rich people act poor, it’s because they’re trying to avoid being mistaken for middle-class kids who are trying to be mistaken for rich kids. When all the middle class kids start wearing Armani, it’s time to start dressing like the lower class (knowing that the Middle Class kids can’t possibly follow you there because they’re too scared of being confused with actual lower class people).
- jayd16 7y agoCalloquially this is known as humility.