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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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Interesting you say this, I was definitely taught not to be tacky/trashy, but I think this was largely because my grandfather came from poor country people. Big distinction between the dignified working poor without means and poor white trash in my family
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Oh yeah that too Maternal grandma married out of rural Oklahoma trash by getting a scholarship and she never forgot that distinction once she learned it
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I bet every class has its distinctive trash and identifying and avoiding that trash is key to moving up
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I'm curious what my tier's trash is ; I expect that I embrace many of them. :(
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Replying to @MorlockP @eigenrobot and
although also, I think doing something offbeat and weird for your profession can add +1 or +2 status points e.g. the accountant who races sailboats, or the software engineer who farms the other thing doesn't have to be high status, but the quirkiness itself signalls something ?
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(N.B. this is not me trying to claim a status bump, bc (a) I'm not, (b) it wouldn't work even if I tried). Just noting that I've seen this effect e.g. w my friend Dan who's a CTO / farmer, and other friends.
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