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Given the call for a die roll, I think the intent was an exercise in attempting to describe a culture in terms of the rolled class, not actually selecting the o
by hc-taway 6y ago
Given the call for a die roll, I think the intent was an exercise in attempting to describe a culture in terms of the rolled class, not actually selecting the one(s) best for HN. Either just for fun, or as an attempt to claim that the whole thing is just tea-leaf-reading and you can claim anything is "high" or "low".
(HN is mostly Prole-and-proud and, especially, Middle-who-erroneously-think-they're-Upper-Middle-because-they-can-afford-expensive-hiking-clothes, with some actual Upper-Middle but not that many—most of the Upper Middles in tech are in more people-person roles, if not ownership or management, than pure technical ones, even if they have some kind of tech background, or sometimes are in the more academic wing of tech)
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y ago(Okay, but you seem to think we're supposed to _declare_ the die roll :-)
- reedjosh 6y agoAgree--mostly prole. I myself would like to think I was born low prole and have moved to high. From the review I believe in many aspects I have middle taste, but I just don't think I've actually made it yet.
- reedjosh 6y ago> They are the most likely to be snobbish and overuse big words, the most obsessed with enforcing norms of virtuous behavior, and the least interested in privacy... Nevermind, not middleclass -- definitely interested in privacy.
- reedjosh 6y agoWas Frank Zappa class X? That would certainly make sense of the guy.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 6y agoAs a mostly prole, do you really want your grandchildren to have old money?
- reedjosh 6y agoBy high I mean moved to high-prole. : )
- shard 6y ago> HN is mostly Prole-and-proud Sounds about right. HN is mostly educated in engineering with a smattering of business, both eminently sensible subjects which are too practical to be middle class. There are some pure science/math folks among us, which can be counted as middle class, but they are few and far between.