Are there any known ways to systematically reprogram typical class attitudes (from lower to upper middle class for example)? Not superficial stuff like dress or speech or table manners. Stuff like financial habits, education plans, work ethics etc.
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Replying to @vgr
Did...did you just make a class-based distinction in work ethic? Wtf dude...
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Replying to @fmailhot
Of course there’s a work ethic difference. Whether it’s a good or bad one for either side is up to you to decide.
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Replying to @vgr
Well, I dunno...I think it'd be pretty challenging to "reprogram upper" and upper-middle class people to consistently put in a hard day's work.
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Replying to @fmailhot
Now your biases are showing through. Most “working rich” upper middle and upper class people work horrendously hard, like 100-120 hour weeks, barely any sleep They enjoy it more than poor people who are forced to the same effort, but they aren’t lazy unless it’s inherited wealth
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Replying to @vgr
Maybe you can clarify your assertion that there are class-based differences in work ethic. Is it the rich or poor who don't work as hard? Also, [citation needed] re: your assertion that most "working rich" (whatever that means) work 100+ hr weeks. I'm...skeptical.
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Replying to @fmailhot
Why do you think it’s a difference in how hard they work? It’s attitude, style, anxiety levels, career expectations, competition/cooperation balance, backstabbing vs. mutual aid etc. A function of the kinds of roles the classes usually have
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Replying to @vgr
That was your assertion, not mine. The post I initially replied to pretty plainly reads like you take work ethic (and financial planning & education plans) to be class-based "attitudes".
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Replying to @fmailhot
I still do. You’re the one who read a value judgment where I merely asserted a mere difference. The work ethics are likely well suited to the different kinds of work.
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If it was a simple matter of people being asked to do “different work” that’s one thing, but when a whole social identity is wrapped up in the former work, retaining starts to look like “re-Education”. On this basis are libs accused of being fascists.
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