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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Replying to @alicemazzy
I don't think the stupid cultural signifiers like knowing nonsense bourgeois sandwich ingredients means anything
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tcjfs
Not being able to afford the things that everyone around you talks about is certainly a bit isolating.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @alicemazzy
Especially for an introvert, that kind of shared experience is essential just to be able to have conversations with people.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
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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Replying to @alicemazzy
Well I don't buy that, but they're not so cleanly separable. e.g. I can't bring myself to routinely spend £3 on a coffee
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Replying to @anomalyuk @alicemazzy
I'd argue that the constant shifts in food trends or say, current PC issue, is about driving this "practice exclusivity"
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Replying to @timalmond @anomalyuk
the way
@Meaningness put it is to get into the middle you have to memorize all the right answers, whereas...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
...mark of the upper middle is ability to spontaneously generate the right answers on novel topics
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Replying to @alicemazzy @timalmond and
I like the analogy of politics to fashion more and more these days
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