Short statement on social class

[Seth Walsh]

Social class is how much of reality you can afford to make optional.

The higher you rise, the fewer constraints arrive as commands: bad jobs can be refused, bad places can be left, emergencies can be absorbed, mistakes can be survived, time can be bought back, and other people’s power over you weakens.

At the bottom, reality is compulsory; at the top, it becomes negotiable.

Money matters, but class is deeper than income: it is the accumulated ability of a family, network, reputation, education, and balance sheet to turn necessity into choice. The true luxury is not consumption. It is veto power over circumstances.

 

[amisci]

If you're born at the absolute lowest social class its actually over

 

[romanstock]

Reading this makes me respect the genius of @_MVP_

The way he expresses thoughts like this, so concise and at another level.

 

[Shrek2OnDvD]

Social class is how much of reality you can afford to make optional.

The higher you rise, the fewer constraints arrive as commands: bad jobs can be refused, bad places can be left, emergencies can be absorbed, mistakes can be survived, time can be bought back, and other people’s power over you weakens.

At the bottom, reality is compulsory; at the top, it becomes negotiable.

Money matters, but class is deeper than income: it is the accumulated ability of a family, network, reputation, education, and balance sheet to turn necessity into choice. The true luxury is not consumption. It is veto power over circumstances.

born in social housing in the poor part of your city to immigrant parents. over before it even began