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[quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to figure out the difference between, what?--wealthism?--vs classism. Plus although I can easily imagine the old money vs nouveau riche thing, not sure what it would look like if the classist person wasn't actually wealthy. Plus, I think classism has less to do with overlooking the fact that some people lack resources others take for granted (Wilbur Mills saying the furloughed fed contractors could just take out loans) than some kind of judgment about people perhaps?

Here's one thing, although I grew up working class (poor? not exactly but, say, our house did not have a separate dining room and there were a lot of second hand clothes) I have friend who grew up affluent or fairly (not spectacularly) wealthy. And some of them have siblings who were ne'er do wells when they were in their 20s--unemployed living at home not finishing college for example. Those siblings later became affluent, because they were able to later go back to school using their education trust fund, or went into business for themselves and had tons of connections, or a family friend gave them a good paying job and later the inheritance rolled in. And they seem to have zero consciousness of the fact that had they not had those advantages they'd probably be living in a generic apartment building with thin walls and having to fix their crappy car in the apartment parking lot and getting free or reduced price meals for their kids or not able to keep up on child support and working as a line welder in a place that makes, oh, commercial trailers. Even though they grew up in very socially conscious families.

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