The class position of a specific individual can be quite complex. I'm currently quite into the idea of litmus tests for lower bounds and upper bounds. Like what is the lowest level of wealth / living conditions you feel comfortably familiar with? Before shit becomes unknowable?
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Similarly: what is the highest level of wealth / living conditions you feel comfortably familiar with? Before it's a kind of unknowable abstraction? What I like about class in terms of upper and lower bounds here is it gets at the epistemic distances between class experiences.
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No one in the entire universe knows what it's like to own a house. Those people don't exist. No one has ever met one. But I'm sure off beyond the farthest fringes of the multiverse there's unknowable alien creatures who don't know first hand how to sleep rough.
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IMO this lack of understanding, this lack of familiarity with the day-to-day decision matrices, the strategies and tree of possibilities, defines class distance more tangibly than anything else. Because a trust fund kid slumming it is still in a distinct epistemic universe.
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So where on the map does "lived out of motels and hostels until credit was ruined, lived out of shelters and nightmarish unstable tentative housing arrangements afterwards, only spent a total of 5 nights on the literal street" fall?
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Like I don't understand tent life. Just botch a suicide attempt then tell the social worker in the hospital that you'll throw yourself under a city bus if they don't find a vacancy and mean it.
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