now I want to read an essay about moving between classes, marrying up/down, and gender
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oh gender is an interesting factor I think I partially moved *ladders* by being sufficiently bright and autistic (read: too weird) but have possibly moved *rungs* in part by being sufficiently bright and female
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and pretty
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my tentative theory is that women can move rungs much more easily then men, because they can marry up, and they take on their husband's class (within limits)
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Replying to @MorlockP @eigenrobot and
and, of course, women can drop social class pretty easily by having kids while being unmarried
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Yeah my mom wound up in that situation via single parenting + other stuff Adopted dad's family is *happily* well-off blue-collar, but she never got comfortable or lost her assumption that she'd eventually be surrounded by teachers/pastors/ineffective local politicians again
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So I was raised with a *lot* of anxiety about appearing tacky or trashy, her aspirations for me involved marrying or becoming a doctor/lawyer whereas dad saw a path like blue collar geek/engineer -> tech/high earning geek to be a very natural and admirable path
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you know it's really funny hearing about attorneys/doctors being seen as high status i guess because I realize I havent thought about them that way for years like "oh you . . . practice one of the Professions--how delightfully quaint!"
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it would be interesting to see your class hierarchy what's higher than atty/doctor? fully vested SV dilettante? me: out-of-sight rich > CEO / exec > doctor/lawyer > middle trades e.g. engineering > mid-low trades e.g. teachers > low trades e.g. carpenters > labor > unemployed
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Lawyers need to be moved below unemployed
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no; lawyers are cool
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