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I don't think you can buy Class. Amazon weren't selling it the last time I checked!

 

Even if you earn over £60k and have enough money to have 3 exotic holidays, 4 brand new cars, 6 children in private school, a country mansion with an indoor and outdoor pool, etc etc; it doesn't make you upper class, or even middle class for that matter. (It could also be argued that all that wasteful extravagance won't even make you a happier or nicer person). Though I could be confusing class with cultural capital.

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4 minutes ago, sime42 said:

I don't think you can buy Class. Amazon weren't selling it the last time I checked!

 

Even if you earn over £60k and have enough money to have 3 exotic holidays, 4 brand new cars, 6 children in private school, a country mansion with an indoor and outdoor pool, etc etc; it doesn't make you upper class, or even middle class for that matter. (It could also be argued that all that wasteful extravagance won't even make you a happier or nicer person). Though I could be confusing class with cultural capital.

Your confusing social classes with personality traits. 

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3 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

If you take it to heart every time someone talks bollox on the internet, you are in for a rough ride. Why on earth does it even matter? 

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but when people are spouting bollox, and more so, when they believe that bollox to be the truth it needs putting right. Or does it...

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2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but when people are spouting bollox, and more so, when they believe that bollox to be the truth it needs putting right. Or does it...

No, it doesn't. You will never put it right, and it's only bollox from your perspective anyway. Technicalities can 'technically' be wrong, but stuff like this is just opinion, based on life experience and beliefs. My opinion is no more valuable than yours, and yours is no more valuable than anyone else's. To think someone's opinion needs 'putting right' seems a little egotistical. 

I certainly wouldn't let it bother you.🙂

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18 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

No, it doesn't. You will never put it right, and it's only bollox from your perspective anyway. Technicalities can 'technically' be wrong, but stuff like this is just opinion, based on life experience and beliefs. My opinion is no more valuable than yours, and yours is no more valuable than anyone else's. To think someone's opinion needs 'putting right' seems a little egotistical. 

I certainly wouldn't let it bother you.🙂

Opinion, hmm. Earning a decent wage does not change someone's class, would you agree?

 

Calling Aslef members out over an RMT strike isn't right, but people believe this nonsense. Yes, Aslef members have taken to the picket line recently, but that isn't what this RMT strike is about. Not egotistical, just the facts.

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12 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Opinion, hmm. Earning a decent wage does not change someone's class, would you agree?

 

Calling Aslef members out over an RMT strike isn't right, but people believe this nonsense. Yes, Aslef members have taken to the picket line recently, but that isn't what this RMT strike is about. Not egotistical, just the facts.

I agree that earning good money doesn't change one's class. I think I actually 'liked' the post in which you originally said that.

 

However. I also agree with @trigger_andy that what you seem to think as good money is firmly in working class territory anyway, therefore making the point somewhat moot. In my mind, anyone on the kind of money mentioned is only a few pay cheques away from destitute, not 'on good money'. 

 

I don't know enough about the RMT strikes to have a worthwhile.opinion on the matter, but do take your point. 

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3 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

I agree that earning good money doesn't change one's class. I think I actually 'liked' the post in which you originally said that.

 

However. I also agree with @trigger_andy that what you seem to think as good money is firmly in working class territory anyway, therefore making the point somewhat moot. In my mind, anyone on the kind of money mentioned is only a few pay cheques away from destitute, not 'on good money'. 

 

I don't know enough about the RMT strikes to have a worthwhile.opinion on the matter, but do take your point. 

 

19 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

I agree that earning good money doesn't change one's class. I think I actually 'liked' the post in which you originally said that.

 

However. I also agree with @trigger_andy that what you seem to think as good money is firmly in working class territory anyway, therefore making the point somewhat moot. In my mind, anyone on the kind of money mentioned is only a few pay cheques away from destitute, not 'on good money'. 

 

I don't know enough about the RMT strikes to have a worthwhile.opinion on the matter, but do take your point. 

It's all in perspective, up here a cottage with a decent garden with off road parking in a decent part of Cheshire can be had for about £170k, he says hopefully! So £250-£300/day is good money for a labour only contractor.

 

 

 

 

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