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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In the USA nobody wants to admit they are rich OR poor Everyone insists that they are middle class
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Are you struggling to pay bills, surviving on welfare? You're lower middle class Do you have 8 houses and a jet? Upper middle class
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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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