What things are considered trashy if you’re poor but not if you’re wealthy?

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As someone who has been both, I am intrigued to hear what people think!

You could argue that using your privilege to minimise your tax bill which means that others who can't afford to do so have to pay more is also taking from the state.

not having a career and/or ambition
wearing a lot of luxury brand logos
posting a lot on social media
looking scruffy

Katie Price. What a car crash that woman is Tattoos all over and over the top surgery.

@PrawnAgain and there is that of course!

Speaking 2 languages
Wearing none branded clothes

Lots of children
Lots of dogs
Owning guns
Driving a really old car
Men forgetting to have a haircut for months on end
Accidentally leaving your child at the pub
Letting your teens out in London late at night
Giving your child a —silly— very unusual name.
Wearing PJs under your clothes to keep warm

@MiloMinderbinder925 agree re Boris but he's not ex primary minister just because of his school thousand go to top schools every year

This is a really interesting thread actually.

Tatty house
Tatty/second hand clothes

Owning/running some kind of mobile vehicular conveyance that sells fast food.

There is evasion or avoidance. The taxman prefers neither but one is fiddling the taxman, the other using the law or loopholes to avoid paying the taxman what he/she believes they may be owed.

If he went to a state school he'd have been PM?

I dont really think that's acceptable if you're rich 😂

You have a huge problem with rich people. They aren't some homogeneous mass. Neither are poor people or people in the middle. There will be people working their arses off at every level. People also move between economic levels often. You suggest that you are one of them which makes your contempt of rich people even more strange when you are one of them! It isn't class warfare even though you seem convinced it is.

It is factually true that the people I know that have done well for themselves often took the more difficult option and made sacrifices. They weren't just handed a great career or profitable business. Many people chose a different path and made different choices. You have chosen noble vocations to pretend that all low paid jobs are somehow noble and require an extortionate amount of work but the reality is that most low paid work isn't like that. Lots of people are happy doing relatively untaxing work for sometimes less than FT hours. They may well have a better work life balance and be happier but career prospects and future earnings won't be great. It is an insult and disempowering to pretend that people have no control over their destiny and their choices can't change things. I know first hand that it does.

We need to be very careful about shooting the golden goose. Assuming that individual wealth belongs to the state. It doesn't and people can and will take it with them to more reasonable countries. We need to look after our poor and vulnerable whilst rewarding those that grow the economy and take risks. We need to all prosper together instead of getting bogged down in the politics of envy and assuming that people are different breeds than one another when in reality the vast majority of wealthy families lose their wealth within a few generations.

Terrier dogs

I think shooting is quite a wealthy person's hobby.

Nope don’t buy it. Dd was born before MM. we never left her alone when on a summer type holiday, we ate early and then sat inside /on the balcony while she slept.

On a ski holiday while in a small chalet she’d be in a bedroom on her own but we were in the same building and used a baby monitor and I locked the bedroom door as i didn’t know the other guests. 🤷‍♀️. And I was a young mum at 23yo but I still had more sense than to leave her out of sight in a different building in an unlocked room.

Calling yourself an MC as your main job.

Not everyone who owns a gun is partaking in a shoot at the weekend 😁

Bringing home a bottle of wine with dinner every eve ( it’s never ok to drink a bottle of wine every night ! )

Lots of dogs
Lots of jewellery
Lots of big tellies
Lots of free time
Lots of dogs
Lots of tattoos
Lots of kids

We need Jilly Cooper to weigh in on this thread

cocky vs confident

Just thought of another one, sex work. Two of the most upper class people I have met (through travelling) are now both professional sex workers, one on only fans, another through exclusive escorting.
Both chose this work. They could have had other careers and earned six figures easily but wanted the freedom and to travel the world.

There is a very big difference between you being forced to give a perrson money versus someone not giving you money which you feel entitled to but actually belongs to them.

Even though in both cases you end up with less money. They're not the same.