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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is absolutely wild how this conversation is, so far, exclusively about income and wealth--and not at all about [b]educational attainment, reputation or life experience [/b](all of which historically have been considered parts of defining class). [/quote]

Because the bolded is meaningless and entirely subjective. Class in the modern world is strictly driven by income and assets, not where you went to college or who your great-great-grandfather was. You're trapped in thinking there is a class hierarchy as of old, with the aristocracy at top, the merchants next, the peasants at the bottom. That class hierarchy was legally ordained and each class had specific rights and power. We don't operate like that any more.

We do have socio-economic cultural groups with their own tastes and preferences but no one group has more or less power or legally enshrined rights over others. Being a graduate of Harvard doesn't confer special status, the vast majority couldn't care less. But a self made owner of a plumbing supply business who made millions garners more respect than a typical Harvard graduate who's the fifth generation to have gone to Harvard and lives anonymously in a boring Bethesda colonial.

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