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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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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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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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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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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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Spot on . This cuts to the heart of social dislocation today. “Drill baby drill” and “Trump digs coal” are not about energy policy so much as a rejection of unappealing bourgeois attitudes required for “retraining” for office life.
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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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