@Mellowyellow222
I really do t think the class system can apply now.
Yes we can see what used to be the upper class, those with so much generational wealth they don’t have to work.
But the lines have blurred so much (thankfully) between middle class and working class.
People often use working class as an insult. Appalling snobbery.
Then you have the under class - don’t work, survive on benefits.
Take the class test in the bbc for a bit of fun - much more relevant to today’s society. And it will show you how subtle it all can be
I do think that test is ‘subtle’ at all. It privileges some factors and ignores others.
I come out as ‘elite’ on it, because of our current household income, house value, and the fact that I know academics, artists and CEOs as well as lorry drivers and call centre workers, and go to the opera and art exhibitions, but my parents are retired unskilled manual workers (dad was a bin man) who left school at 12 and struggle with literacy, we grew up in extremely poor, overcrowded conditions, there was frequently a bare minimum of food, and I had never met anyone other than my teachers who’d been to university until I went myself, having researched scholarships and grants — my parents tried to dissuade me.
That upbringing and the worldview I learnt growing up has been every bit as formative of me in terms of a place on the class ladder as our current income and our friends’ jobs. Fundamentally, I do not trust anyone who has never known what it is like to be able to tell how far we are from the last payday by the amount and type of food on the table. That person has a very different worldview to mine.
Does this make me WC? Probably not.
But it’s a pretty unsubtle test that lumps people like me into ‘elite’ with the public-school-educated offspring of QCs by ignoring things like parental education, income and job.