Money doesn’t by class

[Theweedygarden]

Mumsnet is full of people who go on about their large salaries and how much money they have. Great. You have money.

But, god, you have no class, empathy or ability to understand how much others struggle. Being wealthy does not give you a right to be nasty and smug and superior to people who can’t afford to spent ££ on a rug or their food shop, or their bloody Christmas turkey,

Lots of people on mumsnet might claim to be wealthy, but they’ve definitely got no class or empathy.

Edit; and my dyslexic self spelt buy wrong! Sure that’ll anger people!

I genuinely just read that as “slippers and dogs“ not “strippers and drugs“. Much more sensible options.

I have answered your question multiples times.

to confirm once more, your husband is from a working class background he was raised working class and he is still working class.

Also this makes no sense to me:

“I absolutely do think you can be working class and have money, many wealthy footballers and trades are working class”

if a footballer can be working class why isn’t your husband? Why is he in some special “transcends definition” class?

Ok I’m not arguing with you: you keep saying he’s definitely working class but won’t say why he’s working class. Other than he was raised that way. Which I would dispute.

As for the difference between the average footballer and my DH as I quite explicitly said I think it’s education is the primary driver of class. He went to university and later got an MBA.

to be clear: I don’t have the slightest care about “class” but I do believe that if he claimed to be WC people would probably think he was a right knob.

Jealousy isn’t classy either, OP

You mean you never seen the thousands of threads on MN over the years talking about what or what does not make someone middle class? No? You've been lucky then! It is a constant topic of conversation on here.

Would you rather be rich with no class whatsoever, or poor as a church mouse but the most classiest person in the room at all times?

I interpreted the opening post as about classiness / grace instead of WC vs MC.

What happened to you 😯

You do know that being poor doesn't give any moral high ground either don't you?

I wanted to know what pasta had to do with anything?!

buy

Did you read the whole post or just the title?

Where are people being smug about their money.

i see posts asking about what people spend in X and people report what they spend. The same is true for savings.

i see posts about financial management and budgeting where people try to give advice based upon their own experience. Sometimes people give bad advice, sometimes it is good. Not everyone is a financial expert, it’s a message board.

i see people just chatting about their lives and sometimes that means talking about a holiday or a a new thing in their life.

none of those should be offensive.

occasionally you will get a post like if you don’t eat organic, take your children abroad annually you are a just doing life wrong. These seem pretty few and far between. I would put them at less than the posts that seem to bias towards the everyone being eligible for benefits during a life crisis. Yet, it may be my own bias and what I notice, I have not actually counted.

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On mumsnet it appears that you can only discuss money freely if you don’t have it.

Plenty of people lack class, empathy and understanding regardless of their monetary situation.