What Class Are You?
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Topic: What Class Are You?
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Subject: What Class Are You?
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 17:44
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Divide and Conquer ... I MEAN.... enjoy this poll. EDIT: I suppose I should disclose myself. I come from a lower middle class family, as they say, and have worked in lower middle class / impoverishing jobs while attending lower middle class schools (public high school, community college, then state university...) I'm pretty happy about where I am, but I'm aiming for a tad higher, not too ambitious though in terms of income or lifestyle (I just want to be halfway to secure), but I want to be a professional in my aimed at field (history), which I suppose is somewhat ambitious. |
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 17:51
After three years of poverty, we have happily rejoined the ranks of the illustrious lower-middle class. 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 18:03
| I was last option all my life, but recently upgraded one option above. |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 18:49
Congratulations on gaining some ground in this economy. My family was relatively lower middle class when I was growing up. Since the recession began, its kept us on the edge of being impoverished, i.e. losing everything. Like they say, it really is "living paycheck to paycheck." I think the only difference between the lower middle class, a term I disagree with (but that's another story), and the so called "impoverished" 20% of the population, is that one is in the process of becoming more impoverished and the other has hit rock bottom. |
harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 19:19
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Upper-Middle i guess. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 19:24
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These categories are vague and play into how nearly everyone in America sees themselves a "middle class". ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 19:27
| I have $600. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 19:35
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According to wiki, upper middle class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States That's for the overall US though. I live in a f**king expensive county...well everything in NJ is f**king expensive So for my area I am pretty much middle middle. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 19:49
| Small Business Owner, although I feel at least a class or two lower than that's been grouped with some of the time. |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 20:44
Yes they are vague, so I tried to double up on the two main lines of terminology, the American one (middle class is most of population), and the old one (working class, middle class, upper class). I favor the old method of recognizing class by ownership of productive property, which makes society look like a pyramid with a very small cap. But that would be slightly confusing given current conventions. In fact It is more popular today among serious people to do something like divide the population's income levels by 5. Top 20% Second To Top 20% Middle 20% Second to Last 20% Last 20% "Quintiles" I believe, it got a funny mention on the Simpsons in 2008. I find this last method is really indefinite, and lacks descriptive, common sense character. So what results here is an unholy compromise with the common parlance favored and is very vague indeed. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 22:28
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My family could be called regular old middle class I suppose. As a graduating 20-something, like 90% of my demographic, I am poor and have a lot of student loan debt for a degree that is de-valuing at a remarkably evil rate. Income doesn't matter quite as much when the Boomers mortgaged off our future and got fat, sick, dumb, war-mongering, and greedy with the funding.
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 22:30
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You could be a small business owner and still be lower class. ie. owner/operators
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 22:35
| True point Drew. My household is solid middle/upper middle but I personally am poor as hell thanks to a life choice of bumming and some student loans |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:07
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Middle class (currently looking for a job as archivist) - with a complex background: my mother had been a social worker until her retirement last year, while my father had been working in construction as both a professional trainer and a foreman for the last 15 years. But I have some difficulties to remember his whole career: he even had been a waiter in London in the early 70's! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:17
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I didn't realise they had a class system in the States too. Here you are born into it. So technically I am born working class, but I feel middle class. I defintely live in a middle class home. I don't talk about tits and football all the time. So not typical working class that has risen slightly. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:33
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Born working class, but now, owning my own home, plus the fact my wife & I both have cars, I guess that makes me upper working/lower middle class, I guess.
Arbitrary differences in any case - I know people considerably better off than me who I still manage to look down on  ... begs the question, is class a matter of possessions/status or outlook?------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:36
Outlook. Just think of some lowlife scumbag winning the lottery, buying a huge house, a ferrari etc. Doesn't change the person if he behaves the same. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:59
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I'm on salary, making decent figures, capable of keeping the bills paid, not starving. I guess that makes me middle class. That might change if I had a family to support..... ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 06:01
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Also, does it make me middle class to know the title of this thread should be "Which class are you"?
Or does that just make me a pedant?  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 06:52
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I'm a 4th edition Rogue. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 06:58
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Working class, except that I'm not working. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 07:02
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I consider myself classless, but Middle Class suits me best, I think. I am on salary, spending my working days playing the part of the domestic pig being surrounded by small business owners and a part-time office manager.. ------------- 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 08:13
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I don't really think much about what class I'm in, but I am fairly comfortable financially, and I'm very grateful for that. 10-15 years ago, I was a wreck. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 10:42
Definitely with you on that - been there, seen it, done it, got the bad memories. There but for the grace of the Gods, etc... -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 11:02
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I have no class
*belches and scratches ass* -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 15:57
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I don't accept your class stratification system. I prefer Marx's analysis of class, which broadly speaking states that you are either a member of the ruling class (bourgeoisie) or you are a wage slave (proletariat). I do not own the means of production and I am not a capitalist. I have to work for a wage (I am a teacher) so therefore I am proletariat (or working class). ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 16:45
So what would you call a person who owns a business that hires two people? ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 17:00
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^ ATM ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 17:02
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"Well I'm ever upper-class high society God's gift to ballroom notoriety And I always fill my ballroom The event is never small The social pages say I've got The biggest balls of all" ------------- 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 18:12
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Middle-class. Oscillating from the edge of poverty to the upper middle class during my life. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 18:24
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Class of 97 Oh, wait. I'm not sure. Please define boundaries and requirements. I might be upper higher class if we consider that most of my possesions are useless items that are mostly for leisure activities like a gigantic cd collection that few actual rich guys have. But I'll be quite low class if we check my bank account. Which is strongly related to my previous point. ------------- 
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 03:10
In case you haven't read the newspapers: Marx is dead. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 06:09
And...? Darwin is dead but I still believe in evolution. -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 06:15
------------- What? |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 07:28
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Lower Middle Class / Working Class, I guess. We don't have classes where I live, but I'm not exactly rich. -------------  
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 07:33
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 07:35
I know we in the Nordic countries put some emphasis on equality, but still...Norway has done it properly!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 07:51
 You know what I mean. We don't have defined classes in the Nordic countries, do we?-------------
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 07:55
I figured that's what you meant. Just being an ass . ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 08:04
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 08:06
Why, thank you, kind Sir! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 08:14
I'm not sure we do, or at least in the U.S. I think class is more a reflection of education and social maturity than one of lineage and wealth. I know a whole lot of poor people who are more educated, intelligent and have far more couth than many hyper-wealthy people such as athletes, celebrities and people who inherited their money rather than earned it.
BTW, I would put myself in the 'pulled myself up by the bootstraps' category - I lived in public housing (HUD) as a child and can remember standing in line with my mother for government cheese and milk and shopping at Goodwill and the Salvation Army. But thanks to a strong family work ethic, some encouraging teachers and friends, and a small amount of financial aid from Uncle Sam I now have several college degrees and a well-compensated professional career. In terms of class, I would say I now know it's best to cover one's mouth while belching, and preferably to do it discreetly and outside the earshot of others.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 10:57
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 11:21
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 11:27
Good test, sir!  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 12:33
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I own the Chase-Manhattan Bank but I work as a street busker for tax reasons.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 18:12
Awesome class.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:37
| id say upper middle class. Like, a good paying IT guy's family. |