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You'll find lots of racists, homophobes, and idiots at actual country clubs. Not sure what you're trying to argue here, class can't be purchased.
by burnthrow 6y ago
You'll find lots of racists, homophobes, and idiots at actual country clubs. Not sure what you're trying to argue here, class can't be purchased.
- geodel 6y ago> class can't be purchased. But delusions can be purchased.
- effingwewt 6y agoIndeed, my own family is exactly what you described here. They are affluent wealthy and nice public-facing people. In private they hate the 'poors, blacks, queers', et al. Boggled my mind reading gp's comment, as in my experience it's been the reverse- I had to distance myself from the wealthy part of my own family because 'the poors' have always been better people in general: more forgiving, understanding, compassionate.
- JumpCrisscross 6y agoIf you take two cities and compare their median incomes, the one with a higher income will tend to be more tolerant. That does not mean, within the city, the wealthy are more tolerant than the poor. It’s a system effect. When tolerant people densify, they become more productive. This might be because they can exist more compactly. Or it might be something about how interactions in a tolerant society work. The country club analogy was solely an equivalence of cost. If I were in Tulsa, I imagine I would have to pay that much to get access to the restaurants, theatre, arts and clubs that I take for granted in New York.