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I see your point about people perhaps at the core being mad not at the education part but at the flaunting part. Good point.
by uberman 6y ago
I see your point about people perhaps at the core being mad not at the education part but at the flaunting part. Good point.
- toss1 6y agoYes, and this is related to the reasons the concept of the nouveaux riches and their crass flaunting is very old. People with multi-generational wealth figured out a long time ago that flaunting wealth may feel good for minutes, but it brings the wrong kind of attention for decades, and that wrong kind of attention can be the guillotine. Plus, even if you don't flaunt it yourself, someone in your group flaunting it can create problems for you. So, among the 'real', multi-generational money, any displays are considered very crass. Everything related to wealth signalling in that set is understated, and there are myriad cues, but they're all subtle.
- toss1 6y ago(oh yes, and among those subtle cues is the name of the private schools you/kids/grandkids went to, etc. ...)