Classes POLL

[mpjh]

Poor will do.

[sailorseal]

Who voted as Upper, Upper I know who the first 2 are

[flashleg8]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

Working class.

[sailorseal]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

Working class.

Isn't that more a term for middle class

[flashleg8]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

Working class.

Isn't that more a term for middle class

Not in the UK. A quick wikipedia check shows that for the US you have do have the working class sometimes equated with middle class. Two nations divided by a common language again!

This perhaps explains your skewed poll results.

[flashleg8]

In fact for all those in doubt I'll create a UK based quiz.

I'm called
A) Johnny
B) John
C) Jonathan

I live:
A) 3 bed room (Former) Council house
B) 4 bed room new-build house
C) More than one house

I drive:
A) A second hand car
B) A Company car and I have another small car for a runaround
C) A Range rover for the country and a Bentley for the town

I go/went to:
A) My local state school
B) Local private/grammar school
C) Boarding school

I studied at:
A) Local college
B) University
C) Oxbridge

I studied:
A) Mechanics
B) Engineering
C) History of Art

I work:
A) for the local council as a joiner
B) In an architects office
C) I live off my trust fund

My father was:

A) a miner
B) a doctor
C) lived off his trust fund

I'll be rich when:
A) I win the lottery
B) Start my own business
C) My father dies

My favorite sport is:
A) Football
B) Rugby
C) Polo

I play/do
A) Pool
B) Tennis
C) Rowing

I watch:
A) soap operas
B) documentaries
C) opera

I smoke:
A) 20 a day
B) Don't smoke
C) cigars

I drink:
A) Beer
B) Wine
C) Champagne

I would rather eat:
A) A Big Mac
B) Organic free range chicken
C) Caviar

I vote:
A) Labour/don't vote
B) Conservative/Liberal (that’s the Liberal Democrats for the Americans amongst us)
C) Conservative

I will live till I'm:
A) 55
B) 75
C) 95

If you're mostly "A"s then you're working class, mostly "B"s then you’re probably middle class and mostly "C"s would be considered upper class.

(Edited for spelling!)

[Joodoo]

flashleg has a point, the classification of social classes vary from region to region, so making your poll more specific will help...

[sailorseal]

Agreed

[LYR]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

If you don't mind me asking (just out of curiosity), how old are you?

[jonesthecurl]

IF what you're asking is people's income, ask their income.

[Joodoo]

IF what you're asking is people's income, ask their income.

exactly

[sailorseal]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

If you don't mind me asking (just out of curiosity), how old are you?

Why do I seem intelligent or ignorant?

[sailorseal]

Conquer Club is very middle class

[sailorseal]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

[Frigidus]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

[InkL0sed]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

Why not?

[mpjh]

I knew this would attract some intelligence

So what should I put instead of poor?

If you don't mind me asking (just out of curiosity), how old are you?

Why do I seem intelligent or ignorant?

Yes

[Frigidus]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

Why not?

Indulging in hookers and blow trumps hanging out with a bunch of strange people on the internet.

[InkL0sed]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

Why not?

Indulging in hookers and blow trumps hanging out with a bunch of strange people on the internet.

Rich people can't prefer Risk over drugs, as well as having a fulfilling sex life with their girlfriend(s) (or just be female)?

I know I'd take the former.

[PLAYER57832]

as a word of warning, people often screw up self reporting.

Also a lot of people dont really understand the technical distinction of what puts you into each strata in terms of classification.

What technical distinction? Money, education, housing ownership, parental class, job? Sorry but from a Marxist perspective there is really only two classes: Bourgeois (owners of the means of production: capitalists) and proletarian (producers: workers). I doubt there are any people on this forum that are bougeois. Pretty much ALL of you are proleterian.

P.S. To the OP - your poll doesn't even have working class as an option?! Poor(!) Your class loyalties are obvious!

You might try reading something written after 1920....

[sailorseal]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

Hey! Rich people are people too. They just have more stuff and other perks

[Zeppflyer]

Who are the other three upper upper class people?

I virtually guarantee that there are no upper crust members who spend their time hanging around on an online Risk forum.

I guess I technically was lower-upper until I graduated, got a job and moved out on my own. My younger brother still lives with Mom and Dad and never has less than 4 games going for ten minutes at a stretch.

[Zeppflyer]

as a word of warning, people often screw up self reporting.

Also a lot of people dont really understand the technical distinction of what puts you into each strata in terms of classification.

What technical distinction? Money, education, housing ownership, parental class, job? Sorry but from a Marxist perspective there is really only two classes: Bourgeois (owners of the means of production: capitalists) and proletarian (producers: workers). I doubt there are any people on this forum that are bougeois. Pretty much ALL of you are proleterian.

P.S. To the OP - your poll doesn't even have working class as an option?! Poor(!) Your class loyalties are obvious!

Really? My grandfather was a small-time dairy farmer. He owned his land, tools, cattle, etc, but probably made less than he would have if he'd worked a 40 hour week on an assembly line. Is he Bourgeois? How about the President of a major company who makes millions of dollars a year, but doesn't own any significant amount of stock; i.e. control of the means of production. Is he a prol?

People today can own property much more easily than they could in Marx's day. Just about anyone with a full-time job in the US holds an ownership stake in many companies through their pension or 401k. Contrawise, managers who do not actually own the property that they manage are far more common as businesses grow larger and larger.

Marx's distinctions were arbitrary and painted with far to broad a brush when he wrote them. Today, they are completely meaningless.

[sailorseal]

and rich people are not snobs or idiots, or at least most...

[jonesthecurl]

or at least not necessarily.