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Income doesn't define your social class. An assistant professor is higher class than an upp quartile software engineer despite earning the same as a fast food w
by MacsHeadroom 3y ago
Income doesn't define your social class. An assistant professor is higher class than an upp quartile software engineer despite earning the same as a fast food worker. Both are higher class than an oil rig worker despite making less.
- apantel 3y agoI think your social class is largely a function of what your parents’ social class is because it’s in the formative years before you even begin earning money that you absorb all of the values, mannerisms, entitlements, experiences, etc that are ‘in the water’ of your upbringing. Someone who has been born to very wealthy parents has been around a different kind of melieu their whole life. They’ve absorbed a different kind of table talk. They’ve travelled more, stayed in nicer hotels, been treated better by staff at many different establishments… all of that gets baked into their conditioning in those formative years.
- rufus_foreman 3y agoI no longer believe that an assistant professor is higher class than a fast food worker.
- seneca 3y ago> An assistant professor is higher class than an upp quartile software engineer That isn't even remotely true in the US, in the general case.