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> Calories Yup. > Computing, long distance travel, breadth and depth of entertainment choices, and disease These have nothing to do with class, and I'm not e
by andyana 5y ago
> Calories
Yup.
> Computing, long distance travel, breadth and depth of entertainment choices, and disease
These have nothing to do with class, and I'm not even sure entertainment choices have gotten any better.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe US usage of middle class pretty much refers to access to goods and services, it isn't about class in a social sense.
- cosmojg 5y agoYou ought to read more Fussell: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-class https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on...
- maxerickson 5y agoI don't follow. I didn't say anything about whether the US has social classes, I stated that US usage of the phrase "middle class" tends to be about access to goods and services.