scott reviewed fussell hohohohoho i have so many thoughts about this as reading Class was a formative experience for me. i will write them later. in the mean time everyone should read classhttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-class?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MzE5NzM5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjg2MzQ2NSwiXyI6InIya1hMIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE0MjEwMDcwLCJleHAiOjE2MTQyMTM2NzAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.YhkREjT_ZtVtXmAXlwuYSXdx1Z836b2w7DDOFIcJhUM …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Haven't nearly read all of this review, nor read "Class," but I will. That said... some of it seems outdated. I think that the ascent of the mega-tech-billionaire has at least adjusted the old class definitions.
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Replying to @KevinSMayfield @eigenrobot
I'm not saying it was wrong in its time, but it's really hard to say that Jeff Bezos is "upper middle class." This is someone who could literally alter the course of nations if he wanted to.
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Replying to @KevinSMayfield @eigenrobot
Sort of agree, but your conflation of “class” with “power” is a category error. Fussell is describing the pure social status realm. Economics and power play supporting, not starring, roles in the narrative.
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Replying to @random_scrub @eigenrobot
But social status is subjective, right? So if different groups measure status different ways, and view different groups as being peak status, then there is no pure social status realm.
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i think it's better to see these as separate cultural clusters in many cases than as tiers per se, although often they're aware of their relative power and status
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