The Batlord |
04-24-2020 02:27 PM |
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Originally Posted by jwb
(Post 2114364)
I would've thought fighting to climb the socioeconomic ladder is the opposite of complacency.
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That's not really what we do though. Poor people live in cultures of fellow poor people where they normalize being poor because all their friends and family are poor and so being in that "poor culture" is more desirable than climbing the ladder. They might have those hunter gatherer instincts to hoard resources to have more whatever, but they generally do so both within the confines of staying within their "poor cultures" and with fantasizing about being some kind of celebrity (musician, sports star, or other kind of celebrity) who doesn't have to acclimatize to a higher rung of social culture and so they can retain their culture while still attaining wealth.
Middle class culture is by nature a grasping culture where they value both the virtue of rising above one's station by becoming a pure professional who denounces any cultural traits that might associate one with being of the lower classes and praises becoming a responsible middle management type, but also value retaining a heads down, no nonsense ambition that rejects upper class degeneracy even while embracing certain excesses to show that one is capable of existing in the upper class (suits and ties, expensive watches, BMWs, etc).
It's all grasping for more than you have while remaining complacent in the culture you were born into because it's what you know and are comfortable with.
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