The Cedar Lounge Revolution

I was already having nightmares about this thread on Broadsheet yesterday but this from BBC is a bit mindboggling isn’t it.

On wealth

‘cultural’

and who you know

Bizarre no?

Im boxed the lowest of wretched Proles however, while still living on >10k with no savings I effortlessly achieved social mobility by claiming to like Opera and know a Chief Executive (which could of course be my boss)

 

The traditional categories of working, middle and upper class are outdated, fitting 39% of people.

It found a new model of seven social classes ranging from the elite at the top to a “precariat” – the poor, precarious proletariat – at the bottom.

More than 161,000 people took part in the Great British Class Survey, the largest study of class in the UK.

Class has traditionally been defined by occupation, wealth and education. But this research argues that this is too simplistic…

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