Class society - how does it work?

[KLS52]

After adding 4 points for the hardwood floor it was all downhill from there, lol. I quit.

 

[ledboots]

I got middle class. Lots of points for books everywhere lol, and no tv or anything in the living room, also old furniture pays off apparently

 

[Moll Flanders]

I like my reproduction Tiffany lamps.

It's quite dated obviously as I have my kindle in my living room but I gave all my paper books to charity ages ago.

 

[Andy_T]

Interesting. My result was:

You are not a pleb - it's much worse than that. You are a Tory.

Likely, not being a Brit (and a vegan, on top of that), I screwed up the "Milk before tea or Tea before milk" question.

The only vaguely political question that I answered was that I considered the queen to be an example of an outdated model of government. I did not know that this worldview is shared by Tories....

 

[Second Summer]

This video is a bit long (38 minutes), but Jade touches on a lot of different aspects of the British class system. Quite enlightening for someone like myself!

Have you been asked innocent-sounding questions at posh dinner parties that were meant to elucidate your social class? "Where are you from?" "And what do your parents do?"

Are middle-class people trying to block or fire working-class people from middle-class jobs?

Do charities for the "disadvantaged" always have a class structure in their job hierarchy?

Do foreigners get a free pass?

Curious what others here think!

 

[Blobbenstein]

I'm corporate elite....most days I am chairman of the bored.

 

[kita]

Any income scale? I make decent money but at a very hard job, where I've often worked with a 15 minute lunch break the whole work day and nothing more. I work in a fire at will state and as an employee have little rights.

I consider myself a basic loser. I remember as a small child living probably below the poverty line when my mother left our father. If it wasn't for my step father who married my mother with 3 kids, I don't know what we would have done.

I'm lucky to have been born in the United States but still have not had an easy life. I was severely bullied and my mother had mental issues and could be extremely verbally abusive. A lot of what I went through stopped me from being able to realize I had any potential.

I think I'm working class though my monetary income could put me above that. But socially I'm extremely poor.

 

[Capstan]

I'm underclass. I live below the US poverty line, on Social Security. I get heating assistance during the winter months, and a small food stipend year round. Before I retired, I was working class- worked 80-hours a week, and was able to purchase a small house. Now I've had to take a reverse mortgage on the house (borrow money on it) to make ends meet, so it's no longer fully mine. I live comfortably enough, but I'm hardly getting ahead. I'm slowly falling behind, so it becomes a matter of how long I live vs. how long the money holds out. I hope by being frugal, I can make it last a long while.

In the '70s and '80s, I was homeless for several years. I lived with no income and had nothing, except the ragged clothes I wore. Perhaps strangely, IMO, it's when you have nothing that you are most free. Like the song says, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." It's true, and sometimes I long for those days, and its freedom, but then I remember how painful it is to be hungry and cold.

 

[Blobbenstein]

apart from the cold, and hunger, one thing I wouldn't like about homelessness is having to be around people in the street...people people everywhere....and probably not that friendly.

I have slept rough on a few occasions for a few reasons....in London it was a bit alienating; people going about their lives while I had no life....once in the countryside, and it snowed. it didn't rain though which would have been a problem.
Still it was only for a few days. Two weeks in London.

 

[Capstan]

apart from the cold, and hunger, one thing I wouldn't like about homelessness is having to be around people in the street...people people everywhere....and probably not that friendly.

Yes, lack of privacy is another awful downside of being homeless, being constantly in the public eye.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I'm sorry to read that some of you have had experience with homelessness. I've had various problems with money at certain points in my life, but nothing as serious as that. I have worked with young homeless people and I know some people can fall through the cracks. It's shocking really that homelessness still even exists in richer countries.

I consider myself a basic loser.

I'm quite sure that you are not a loser!

 

[Second Summer]

Our new CEO is an avid cyclist. Is it a coincidence that my boss has now taken up bicycling and is prancing around in ridiculous bicycle attire?

And, is my reaction to this evidence of my own place in the class society?!

 

[Second Summer]

This video is a bit long (38 minutes), but Jade touches on a lot of different aspects of the British class system. Quite enlightening for someone like myself!

Have you been asked innocent-sounding questions at posh dinner parties that were meant to elucidate your social class? "Where are you from?" "And what do your parents do?"

Are middle-class people trying to block or fire working-class people from middle-class jobs?

Do charities for the "disadvantaged" always have a class structure in their job hierarchy?

Do foreigners get a free pass?

Curious what others here think!

An aside: After the Brexit referendum I started wondering about these videos by "Jade" that I'd been watching. There were several. I thought they provided an interesting and under-represented point of view. However, after the referendum, she suddenly stopped making videos. And now I don't think I can find her videos even if I try. I can't help but think Jade and her videos were part of some covert influence campaign to help the Brexit side win.