This may get me strung up on Twitter, but one of the main reasons folks don't move from a lower *economic* class to a higher one very easily is because they don't know the proper cues from the corresponding *social* class.https://twitter.com/KarenDZachary/status/1029183717162475520 …
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so uh, what does that mean?
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I'd also like to know this
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Just means “contact me,” usually email
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I have *so many* stories like this, especially pre- and at-university. The Japan factor then insulated me from it for sufficiently long to be able to mostly successfully fake professional class on both sides of the Pacific.
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"What social class did you grow up in, Patrick?" Mom once called a McDonalds that I was in with the math team to ask the manager would he please give me a burger and we would come by and pay for it later. (This sounds like either a joke or "We were *very* poor"; was neither.)
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There is a certain degree of emotional transparency that is only OK when you are from lower classes. There is no status to jockey over if you are from lower economic classes, so you never learn to be guarded and to manage the status that you are projecting at any given moment.
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I don't think any of that is true. Status within your milieu is always important and useful, it just doesn't always transfer to other social contexts.
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There is a point where everyone around you is so low status that you just exit the status game. If there is status-seeking in that context, it is not even remotely like the kind of status-seeking that is prevalent in tech and that helps you advance in more elite contexts.
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A sign of my bubble is that I say "ping me" all the time and never had any idea that it was opaque terminology
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Question: what was the origin? I remember using it in elementary school in the context of Magic: The Gathering (pinging is tapping a creature for 1 damage), so I quickly learned the ValleySpeak (a quick grab of someone's attention).
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also used with regard to mid-20thC sonar... but origins seem to go much further back, to middle/old english for prod/prick: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ping#Etymology …
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It’s a networking term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility) …
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But it clearly predates consumer computing, given my age and awareness of it as a child.
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I learned about it in middle school computer class in mid-00s - we were learning about networking and how we could send a “ping” to an IP. Stuck w me ever since but I’m not sure I would’ve known had it not been for that one elective class.
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Yep. “A framework for understanding poverty” by Ruby Payne talks a lot about this
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I had to learn this the hard way, too. There is a constellation of habits/traits (dress, jargon, beliefs, ways of speaking) that you will not get via osmosis if you are from below the upper-middle class. Elites can smell it a mile away.
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When I first moved to California and worked in the microcomputer industry in the 80's I was given a hard time about my very strong southern accent. There was still lingering disdain for "okie" accents as from stupid people. It happens. Adapt and overcome.
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This has not changed. I moved to the Northeast from Texas and I have to be very careful in my professional life to try to minimize the Texas accent because I get teased mercilessly when it slips out and people go from listening to me to making fun of me in an instant.
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Yep...
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.
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