Has Britain Now Become More Class Conscious Than It Once Was?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303333/Great-British-Class-Survey-reveals-UK-7-social-classes-Are-precariat-new-affluent-worker-elite.html

[emmie]

no, it just feels like it.

[ummmm]

We are 'established middle class' which is a load of tosh.

[emmie]

lots of thoughts yesterday...

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1230863.html

[Old_Geezer]

Someone has to justify their job so they set about looking at he usually accepted 3 groupings of folk, recognise all the edges have moved/blurred over time, and invented a load of new categories as a replacement. One that few of the public will adopt long term anyway. 3 groups are easy to envisage, many are not. Meanwhile a slow news period gets the media to make a nose about it to fill space/time so now we're all aware. But generally speaking fewer care these days than was the case say, 50 years ago. And probably fewer then than 50 years previous to that. It is becoming a 'for entertainment only' thing. Sure there is still an elite whose ancestors grabbed most of societies wealth for themselves and their family, or maybe have managed to more recently. And there are those for whom finding the finance to last the week is a constant stress. But generally I don't think we consider such differences very much these days. And even fewer of us put it down to one group being better than another as a class distinction tends to imply. We are all a product of our genes and experiences anyway and whilst the wealthy can pay for a better standard of life they can't yet change their genetic code even if they could judge better from worse.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh geee ...............

"make a noise" like I typed >:-(

[emmie]

patent nonsense, we should all have moved on from this..

[Old_Geezer]

"society's"

[anotheoldgit]

I think what is far more important than class, is the way in which one conducts one's life.

One can have the lowest paid worker, or even non-worker, who is more benefit to society by the way they conduct their lives, than the highest aristocrat who leads a life of depravity.

[youngmafbog]

So if you have savings of > 140K but no university education. Where do you fit?

And I thought the bottom class were the scratters or 'rat boys'. Where are they?

It's all a load of old nonsense.

[rojash]

"One can have the lowest paid worker, or even non-worker, who is more benefit to society by the way they conduct their lives"

Not according to yesterdays' DM. They think that all non-workers and people in receipt of benefits automatically turn into child-killers.

[zebo]

I wonder how many people have done the test yet?????? It has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese plant! How can the "value of your home" be relevant with no reference to geographical location, for starters.

[FredPuli43]

Quite zebo, using the brief test on the BBC site, I was traditional middle class until I resubmitted by removing the farm worker from my social acquaintances. I was then in the elite ! That doesn't say much about the testers' knowledge of 'elite'. I'm sure the Duke of Norfolk and most ducal landowners have a farm worker of some sort whom they know socially but they are 'elite' and my knowing one should not disqualify me, though there are plenty of other facts which might or should.