Social Class as Culture
POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Friday, August 19, 2011 00:54
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Anthony! Dang, it seems like it's been a long time. What've you been up to?
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I agree with that, too, Anthony, but I think it goes back to that "they think differently" thing. If raised among the wealthy, I think they BELIEVE they hvae the right to do as they please...how many have we seen get in trouble with the law for doing things others would fear getting in trouble with the law for? I think that goes to both; they're RAISED to think they don't need inhibitions as much as others do. So for me that combines the two and is a "chicken or the egg" problem; does being wealthy decrease inhibitions, or does one learn one doesn't need inhibitions because one grew up thinking differently?
I think the main thing about being rich is, it removes a lot of inhibitors from human behavior
And I, too, would like to catch up, as wel as being tickled pink to see you back.
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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I would say both, with the stipulation that the rich kid mindset is probably permanent, while bad behaviour in the newly-rich is more of personal backlash against a world that has been frustrating (kind of an "I don't have to deal with this bull anymore" reaction).
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Originally posted by Niki2:Quote:I agree with that, too, Anthony, but I think it goes back to that "they think differently" thing. If raised among the wealthy, I think they BELIEVE they hvae the right to do as they please...how many have we seen get in trouble with the law for doing things others would fear getting in trouble with the law for? I think that goes to both; they're RAISED to think they don't need inhibitions as much as others do. So for me that combines the two and is a "chicken or the egg" problem; does being wealthy decrease inhibitions, or does one learn one doesn't need inhibitions because one grew up thinking differently?
I think the main thing about being rich is, it removes a lot of inhibitors from human behavior
And I, too, would like to catch up, as wel as being tickled pink to see you back.
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off
Indeed. While many black and poor kids grow up thinking that the police should be avoided at nearly all costs, many rich kids seem to grow up thinking that there's really nothing the cops can do to them.
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So, Joss Whedon's a dick?
That article panders to the "poor me" syndrome pretty blatantly - and who are these folks? "... a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science." So like it's doubly true? Looks like 2 rich professors wrote this...
I prefer Bruce Springsteen's take on wealth - when asked what it was like coming from a simple home in New Jersey to now living in a 10 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills he said, "there's assholes on every block."
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Byte: free range people ? I can sorta see it like that, versus the ivory tower crowd.
DT: The word you are looking for, is Oligarchy.
-F
Nah, I think it's aristocracy, but it is also an oligarchy. I think of oligarchy as being where the real position of power is not certain, but rather there is a power struggle between ruling powers to angle for control, but that definitely happens: the us president is not in power, I think tim geitner is, and the last president wasn't in power either, cheney was. Clinton may have been, but bush sr. Was over reagan.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Anthony's theory makes sense, rich people don't have to maintain relationships since they can just go get new friends or employees if they mess up with the old ones, whereas most of humanity will have the same coworkers, the same neighbors, for a long time and we have to make it work. I too think that some of this depends more on how you were raised than how much money you have now.
Quicko, I know that, and I won't deny that aspects of communism, on paper, do appeal to me on some level. But in real life it doesn't work like it looks on paper, so I'm not interested, at least not on a large scale, like for something beyond a little village. It might work, at least for a time, in a little village, but not a county, state or country because humanity is greedy and lazy.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Anthony! Dang, it seems like it's been a long time. What've you been up to?
Hello,
Nothing interesting, I assure you. Just plodding along and getting along.
But it's nice to see all the old faces.
--Anthony
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Jacob Hornberger
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Anthony's theory makes sense, rich people don't have to maintain relationships since they can just go get new friends or employees if they mess up with the old ones, whereas most of humanity will have the same coworkers, the same neighbors, for a long time and we have to make it work. I too think that some of this depends more on how you were raised than how much money you have now.
Quicko, I know that, and I won't deny that aspects of communism, on paper, do appeal to me on some level. But in real life it doesn't work like it looks on paper, so I'm not interested, at least not on a large scale, like for something beyond a little village. It might work, at least for a time, in a little village, but not a county, state or country because humanity is greedy and lazy.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
Thanks - that's pretty much the problem with the idea of "free market" capitalism as well. People and corporations really DON'T regulate themselves very well most of the time. Neither do governments. The Constitution provides checks and balances that are SUPPOSED to keep the government in line, but without regulations, there really are no such checks and balances on corporations.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Anthony! Dang, it seems like it's been a long time. What've you been up to?
Hello,
Nothing interesting, I assure you. Just plodding along and getting along.
But it's nice to see all the old faces.
This place is the internet home to a number of us. As in the old saying, "Home is that place that, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
Welcome home! :)
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