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social standing is even less zero sum than capital. if I choose to respect you, that doesn't mean I have to kick the next person I see in the groin. edit: sorr
by convolvatron 4y ago
social standing is even less zero sum than capital. if I choose to respect you, that doesn't mean I have to kick the next person I see in the groin.
edit: sorry, now I see. how can you lord your wealth over the peasants if they are as rich as you? why should we as a society care how much you get you put yourself above others for no good reason?
- endisneigh 4y agoThat's not what relative social standing means.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoPerhaps you could clear up the problem b y defining it for us so that we have a clear target to aim at.
- endisneigh 4y agoThe classic terms are sufficient. Upper, middle and lower class are all inherently relative terms. Everyone cannot be "upper class," or middle, or lower.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThe terms might be classic (whatever that means) but the meaning varies from place to place and time to time. Class in the UK does not necessarily have the same meaning as in the US for instance.