Quick question. When someone self-identifies as being from a certain class, do they get to choose based on the highest class they've been, or is it based on what class they actually are based on income?
Quick question. When someone self-identifies as being from a certain class, do they get to choose based on the highest class they've been, or is it based on what class they actually are based on income?
Honestly, I don't know. I am who I am. I have certain habits, behaviors, beliefs, etc from my parents who are considered a high income class but probably upper middle class in how they conduct themselves. However, I sometimes speak lazily or wear clothes that are stained or have been worn out, due to comfort (and I tend to feel uncomfortable and out of place in very nice or formal clothes), looking somewhat like one of those people of walmart pictures. My outlook, I think, is the working man outlook, even though my income is above blue collar.
Quick question. When someone self-identifies as being from a certain class, do they get to choose based on the highest class they've been, or is it based on what class they actually are based on income?
This? :2razz:
Income doesn't make class. It's how you're raised and educated; I could hit Publisher's Clearing House this week, and I still wouldn't be fit to rub elbows with the social elite.
Pour enough money into me, though, and I can make my own social class.
Income doesn't make class. It's how you're raised and educated; I could hit Publisher's Clearing House this week, and I still wouldn't be fit to rub elbows with the social elite.
Pour enough money into me, though, and I can make my own social class.
I can't grow facial hair to save my life.
I'm just messing with you.
You're probably more fabulous than he. :mrgreen:
Honestly, I don't know. I am who I am. I have certain habits, behaviors, beliefs, etc from my parents who are considered a high income class but probably upper middle class in how they conduct themselves. However, I sometimes speak lazily or wear clothes that are stained or have been worn out, due to comfort, looking somewhat like one of those people of walmart pictures. My outlook, I think, is the working man outlook, even though my income is above blue collar.
Yeah but Mega - that's just par for the course of being a guy... I think there's a hollywood skew out there that says class is wearing a tux for work and a suit for play. I have underwear older than most posters on DP and holier than Rev could ever think of becoming. Yesterday, I went to the UPS store wearing old deck shoes, dark socks, paint splattered shorts, and a t-shirt with a mustard stain wearing an old green John Deere baseball hat with huge sweat stains, and I drove my pickup there. Now... anyone looking at me would think I was some yokel and would NEVER have thought I was anything else, yet my income is 6 figures and my assets are, well... let's just say "decent".
Right now I am wearing a striped ralph lauren shirt golf shirt, a generic black belt from walmart, black steel toed shoes, white socks, and slacks. Typical work outfit.
However, one of the mechanics here tends to look like a cross between zz-top, disco, and jersey shore.
The best mechanic at my plant rarely gets his hair cut or has it brushed but geesh he's a hell of a guy.
Looks like a 100 lb wooly bully, in the coveralls of someone else.
This guy is a terrible mechanic and his personality is a storm cloud on a sunny day.
Anyway, this thread has gotten me all confused. I tend not to care about my place in society, I just do what I do, however, for some reason, this has piqued my interest.
As an adult, I care more about where I live and the people I'm around because it tends to reflect on others how you are.
The quality of the person/people is very important, not so much the look, although looks are the first impression.
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