tangentially related, reminded of this article about tech/finance managers interviewing in the gym https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/thanks-for-your-job-application-shall-we-begin-at-the-squat-rack/ar-BBBNIdQ …
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Not being able to afford the things that everyone around you talks about is certainly a bit isolating.
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Especially for an introvert, that kind of shared experience is essential just to be able to have conversations with people.
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the context was not inability to afford but lack of knowledge of signifiers ie cultural rather than economic capitalpic.twitter.com/QISwSJyDhz
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or I guess I'm being hasty in dismissing it because it is important for belonging, for those who want that, but I don't
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solution is to make leftism popular among the lower classes again obv
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but the fitness thing is surprisingly prevalent, as the poor get fat on garbage the middle work out constantly to signal class
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Think primarily an urban/coastal thing - being fit is aspirational mate-finding/workplace advantage which is part of why they're mid class
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it's a bad example and much less relevant in engineering etc. OTH being able to fit in on some level probably helps on the margins in more+
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