Thank you. That is informative. The words we use for things are so unteresting snd can obfuscate both similarities and differences. Did you differentiate destitute, poor, lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, wealthy, and fabulously rich? Interestingly, and falsely I now know, my parents gave me the strong impression that tradesmen and the working class could never climb above lower middle class unless they transitioned to management which was then a white collar position. Not explicitly taught, of course, but very close to it. My father still believes that steelworkers are not middle class. By virtue of being steelworkers, regardless of savings, or homeownership status. It confuses me.
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Date: 2013-04-02 07:25 pm (UTC)Did you differentiate destitute, poor, lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, wealthy, and fabulously rich?
Interestingly, and falsely I now know, my parents gave me the strong impression that tradesmen and the working class could never climb above lower middle class unless they transitioned to management which was then a white collar position. Not explicitly taught, of course, but very close to it. My father still believes that steelworkers are not middle class. By virtue of being steelworkers, regardless of savings, or homeownership status. It confuses me.