A look at class

[danaeris]

The New York Times has apparently just published a massive series examining the reality of class in America.

It has a neat toy which shows you about what class you are. Here's what I got:
Occupation: 64th percentile (this is the one which varied the most since none of the options matched my profession quite right)

Education: 91st percentile
Income: 38th percentile
Wealth: 55th percentile
AVG: 62nd percentile

Find out your own class by going here. Note that this is specifically about American society.

Comments

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

Very interesting.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Entertaining enough, as a bio technician I am 20% lower on the occupation scale than a secretary. I'd be better off class-wise repairing motorcycles for a living.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Hmm, odd that they have those four, but not the most important one... influence/connections.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Playing around with it, and noticing how very subjective the 'job prestige' is... Retail over Bartending? Lawyers over Authors? It would be interesting to see their data for those rankings.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The rankings are based on annual polls that are conducted to see what people think of various professions. Canadian rankings would be slightly different, I imagine, though not substantially.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

So it is subjective then.

Also interesting that I couldn't find 'independantly wealthy' (and thus not having a job) or 'politician' on the list.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

What, being a politician gives you a class? I would have thought choosing "politician" would automatically rank you as below lower-class, somewhat on the same level as the lesser demons.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase (I believe, correct me if I'm mistaken) Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs... "Just because you're in a class, doesn't mean that you have class"

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Very appropriate. :)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yeah, the original quote was "Just because you are a character, doesn't mean that you have character". Or words to that effect.

I always knew that being a film geek would come in handy one of these days!