Socioeconomics
Fussell's model classifies Americans according to the following classes:
Top out-of-sight: the super-rich, heirs to huge fortunes
Upper Class: rich CEOs, diplomats, people who can afford full-time domestic staff, and some high salaried, prominent professionals (examples include surgeons and some highly-paid types of lawyers)
Upper-Middle Class: self-made well-educated professionals
Middle Class: office workers
High Prole: skilled blue-collar workers
Mid Prole: workers in factories and the service industry
Low Prole: manual laborers
Destitute: the homeless and disreputable (but still free)
Bottom out-of-sight: those incarcerated in prisons and institutions
Today I have dealt with the gamut of socioeconomic friends and acquaintances. In the morning, I was catering to the needs of the Upper Class and in the evening I shared a bottle of Dom Perignon with the Low Prole that I consider a friend and the keeper of my yard. That is the beauty of democracy.
Top out-of-sight: the super-rich, heirs to huge fortunes
Upper Class: rich CEOs, diplomats, people who can afford full-time domestic staff, and some high salaried, prominent professionals (examples include surgeons and some highly-paid types of lawyers)
Upper-Middle Class: self-made well-educated professionals
Middle Class: office workers
High Prole: skilled blue-collar workers
Mid Prole: workers in factories and the service industry
Low Prole: manual laborers
Destitute: the homeless and disreputable (but still free)
Bottom out-of-sight: those incarcerated in prisons and institutions
Today I have dealt with the gamut of socioeconomic friends and acquaintances. In the morning, I was catering to the needs of the Upper Class and in the evening I shared a bottle of Dom Perignon with the Low Prole that I consider a friend and the keeper of my yard. That is the beauty of democracy.
posted by Anomie-Atlanta at Monday, October 09, 2006
3 Comments:
Interesting. And I like your choice for sharing that champagne.
The funny thing is, there are many high prole who now are economically better off than the middle class.
Amen, Anomie. In my days as a low-prole no one ever shared champagne with me. In these days of middle classness I don't even offer it to myself.
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