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Class will tell

What is class based on?

  • Highest class you've been/were raised as

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Income

    Votes: 5 41.7%
  • Don't know, don't care

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Hot Pockets!

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Total voters
    12

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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?
 
I would say currently based income; at least if they were honestly telling someone what class they are in currently. What people have made in the past, or how they're raised doesn't make much of a difference if one is being literal.
 
Income determines class IMO as such determines what tax bracket you are in.
 
That's my perception. My mom was raised upper middle class, and never perceived herself as anything but (not that there's anything wrong with that.) I'm just curious, and yeah: I do think it's literally based on income, therefore.
 
I believe its wealth... (Everything you own)
 
Class has a whole lot more to do with income. It involves resources, both economic and social, and lifestyle.
 
<- Intellectual Class

You money people are funny.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.

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This? :2razz:
 
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?

i think you have to define "class". the poorest person ever can have class. for me, it's dignity, civil behavior, etc, etc.
 
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.

really? who says you wouldn't be fit? the social elite can be pretty pretty ****ed up people, in all kinds of ways.
 
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.

That was my mother's mindset. But when we're talking the census - no. You stop being one class and start being another. Nobody will accept you in the other, but you would be entitled to be called "upper class."
 
I'm just messing with you.
You're probably more fabulous than he. :mrgreen:

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.
 
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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".
 
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".

Thinking about it, you are probably right. My parents have decent assets as well and they tend to wear old clothes quite often (in fact, my dad isn't truly happy unless he is repairing something and covered in grease, insulation, woodchips, or whatever)

Another way of looking at it, all of my good RL friends tend to be rich or young with a very nice income (lawyers and such) who are on their way to rich and conduct themselves as obviously high social class, but not snooty (snooty people piss me off). I am the poorest of my friends, in fact (now that I stop and think about it). Perhaps it means something, perhaps not. Not sure I really care, but it is an interesting thing to wonder about and if there is some underlying theme to it.

Dangit, this is one drawback about having a highly analytical mind. Now I am going to overthink this to death trying to find commonalities.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

I have never cared about that. I have found that the force of my personality is often so strong that I can win people over if I ever want to, when I want to.

The quality of the person/people is very important, not so much the look, although looks are the first impression.

Perhaps. I tend to take everyone individually and watch for the subtle signs in their physical behavior to determine their honesty and other personality traits. However, honesty is a huge thing for me. If a person is not honest, I don't care about their other personality traits and its easy for me to tell if someone is honest. Often you can pick out a very good person, in the middle of a group of not so nice people, if you know what to look for.
 
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