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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from England where we have a real class system, based on birth, education, profession rather than just finances.

Here in the US the "class" system is a joke.[/quote]

I the US, everyone wants to be middle class.  Or, nowadays, UMC.  It's not a joke, it's our culture.  We didn't behead anyone but even still, we are aggressively egalitarian. [/quote]

We have some of this too.  Education and profession definitely determines one's income potential and if you hear that someone is a lawyer or in medicine, finance, tech, you likely will assume they are upper middle class even if they may not be fiscally speaking. Someone who owns a successful trades business can be loaded in comparison, but we still don't necessarily assume they are "upper class" if you see them in their element at work vs at the parent's night in a $$$$ private school.  You would first think of a professor in college to be UMC before you would think of a plumber to be UMC while plumber can obviously make more money and live in relative luxury compared to a professor.

The only difference is birth doesn't determine class in the USA, it's a European atavism  :lol:  It sort of translates to trust funds and hook ups that can elevate financial status and professional status of kids born with means. But kids born into "old money" that is depleted and inheriting nothing may find themselves middle class or worse and nobody would care what prominent family they were born into. [/quote]

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