This is an important thread. Crystallizes something I perceived spending 25 years in the Boston/Cambridge area: there are a lot of people earning $35k/yr and barely making ends meet who THINK that they are in the elite overclass. "We" do this, "we" do that. NPR, books blah blah >https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1457796393800663045 …
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Dead on!
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B/c it’s an affront to their self-conception
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Thanks for boost - this point here was actually one I was planning to cover with examples but thread got so long even I got bored of it - maybe next time.
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But he is using janissary incorrectly.
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cf. Steinbeck, "socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" (disputed whether this is a direct quote).
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Anyway, I think people aligning their values with those of the group they aspire to be a part of rather than the one they're a part of today is generally a good thing. It can be bad when those values are toxic, but it's an attitude conducive toward upward mobility.
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