USA is not a country of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" no matter how often people say it--we are bougie anti-elitist to the core
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The principle goal in American status-seeking is to *conceal your status* vis-a-vis your neighbors
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You want to be surrounded by people who are more-or-less in the same social bracket as you; you don't want to be too rich or too poor...
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...for your neighborhood. But WITHIN that neighborhood, socioeconomic status rankings should be impossible to guess.
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This isn't necessarily wrong. The idea that a median citizen should fall in the middle class is quite new
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Originally, "middle" = between peasantry & aristocracy. So between 90% peasantry, 2% peers, you get 8% middle class
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(and it was no contradiction for the richest peasants to be wealthier than the poorest nobles)
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