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He did acknowledge that age or location are also important, but that to include them would have complicated the model (I am trying to paraphrase him, so this is my interpretation of his thoughts) and then it wouldn’t have been as user friendly.

Please stop by his website (its on the NYT article) and give him your thoughts. They have alot of other fun tools there too.

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Good point about cost of living. That’s probably why I don’t feel as upper-middle/upper class as the graph says I am. Sure I earn well over the national average, but that’s barely enough to buy me a one-bedroom condo here. Like you, if my girlfriend and I moved in together we’d be able to scrape by with a townhouse. A house is completely unattainable at the moment.

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More info for you, Million Dollar Journey
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Joe I think it’s going a bit far to say the NYTimes is fomenting class warfare. Someone’s been reading his freerepublic too much.

I do have to say I very much question if a Bachelor’s instantly puts you in the Upper Class. There are plenty of universities that hand them out like they were currency in the Weimar Republic, and age and COL adjustments are definitely in order for wealth.

Canadian Dream–I actually think that’s one of the beauties of that graphic, actually. It’s incredibly easy for well-educated, well-off people to only associate with other people in that demographic, and to essentially forget the facts about people who are (often much) worse off.

I was discussing this very chart on a different forum, and someone commented about how shocking it was a mere bachelor’s degree would land you so far up the chart. Well, only something like 25% of the US population has a bachelor’s degree, so presumably a much smaller percent have advanced degrees….chances are people who have degrees of *any* stripe almost exclusively work with and socialize with other educated people, so it’s hard to fully conceptualize what life is like without that level of education.

CD

I’m just curious what statistics this graph is based on…

Small World!

With her working we move up into the top 95% of the national average, but we can barely afford a small town home.

I’m sure this study isn’t capable of showing the details but I’d love to see this weighted to account for cost of living etc.

By English standards I am lower to middle middle class living in a working class neighbourhood. My income level is relatively unimportant.

I have read Fussell, and my best guess is that due to my education, in his hierarchy I would be a “middle proletarian” rather than a “low proletarian”. Also, my job affords me greater autonomy than is typical for a low prole. (Below “low proletarian” are the “destitutes” and the “(bottom) out of sights”.)

And it’s funny…Fussell includes a drawing of a low prole regarding a passerby destitute with disdain…and I know exactly how that feels, as I have to deal with destitutes at work all day long and I have come to despise them.

FT

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I think it is relevant to think about how we see ourselves. I grew up in probably “lower-middle America” (military family). Knowing now that I am now better off than most people in the world (as far as material comforts) keeps me both humble and thankful.

LOL

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I must be one of those X people.

MG

/sarcasm