Quiz: how much of a 1% elite bubble do you live in?

[Anonymous]

34, but the chart isn't showing up right on my phone. What does it mean?

[Anonymous]

I got a 34. Would have been higher if they'd let me count the marching band and cheerleading letters. Boo.

[Anonymous]

43... And that is why I feel, in small part, like I do not belong here. Interesting quiz. Odlly, if I'd stayed back home I don't think my score would have been meaningfully different.

[Anonymous]

51.

[Anonymous]

I scored 11.

The range is huge, though.

[Anonymous]

43.

[Anonymous]

36. Grew up in small town America.

[Anonymous]

53. Also grew up in a poor rural area and worked retail (and one factory job) for many years to help put myself through school. Now married to an attorney and have an advanced degree with a career in tech.

No wonder I think most of the posters on DCUM are clueless! Lots of really low scores so far.

It's funny though -- I consider myself to be fairly liberal, but my experiences living around people who were working class/poor make me less likely to cut them any slack...I remember seeing lots of abuse of welfare and SSD. People I know (still) back home who are just too lazy to get out of bed before 10am, or who can't keep a job for longer than a year or so (and not due to substance abuse or anything, just because they get "fed up" and "say f*ck it" one day). So I truly wonder if having a thinner-walled bubble means anything, anyway.

[Anonymous]

I was going to answer the question about pickup trucks yes because my husband just told me he's considering buying one for cheap. But since we don't own one currently nor have either of us ever owned one before, I had to say no.

[Anonymous]

Scored 12 and I am a 1st genration immigrant. Never thought of myself as being in the bubble. Just never been much if a tv / movie watcher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:53. Also grew up in a poor rural area and worked retail (and one factory job) for many years to help put myself through school. Now married to an attorney and have an advanced degree with a career in tech.

No wonder I think most of the posters on DCUM are clueless! Lots of really low scores so far.

It's funny though -- I consider myself to be fairly liberal, but my experiences living around people who were working class/poor make me less likely to cut them any slack...I remember seeing lots of abuse of welfare and SSD. People I know (still) back home who are just too lazy to get out of bed before 10am, or who can't keep a job for longer than a year or so (and not due to substance abuse or anything, just because they get "fed up" and "say f*ck it" one day). So I truly wonder if having a thinner-walled bubble means anything, anyway.

Interesting. Do you think there is a feeling of hopelessness when you grow up in that kind of environment? So you don't feel motivated to do much because it doesn't seem like you will get ahead no matter how hard you try?

[Anonymous]

22 A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents.

I had immigrant parents who were obsessed with education so we lived in the best neighborhoods even though we probably could not have afforded it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scored 12 and I am a 1st genration immigrant. Never thought of myself as being in the bubble. Just never been much if a tv / movie watcher.

Also a 1st generation immigrant. Scored 6, and I think that's only because I have some friends with opposing political views. Otherwise it would've been even lower I guess...

[Anonymous]

A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

66--Except I grew up in the lower class and I am now part of the hated 1%.

[Anonymous]

30, but I'm not upper middle class as it assets. HHI of just $80k