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This is what folks in the upper class like to believe so they can feel like there's more separating them from the middle class than just money. It's also a comf
by tomkarlo 14y ago
This is what folks in the upper class like to believe so they can feel like there's more separating them from the middle class than just money. It's also a comfort to believe that even if you end up bankrupt, you're still "upper class". (And often, that people who are new money and richer than you are somehow not "upper class.")
Make a million dollars a year, and you can go to all the charity balls and opera galas you want. And your kids can go to whatever prep school you want to send them to. That tells me it's about your wallet, not where your parents went to school.
- redcircle 14y agoIt is quite possible for the middle class to move into the upper class. It is just ironic that the desire to entire the upper class is often part of neuroses that make it impossible to enter.
- tomkarlo 14y agoThat's a pretty vague statement. Do you have any facts or citation to support it?
- intended 14y agoThis is a good line of inquiry and one that should be put to the article itself. The article takes one event, and then reapplies it liberally to a popular narrative. I could never have imagined that this was HN material.