The degree of supervision is often a more eloquent class indicator than mere income, which suggests that the whole class system is more a recognition of the value of freedom than a proclamation of the value of sheer cash. The degree to which your work is overseen by a superior suggests your real classes more accurately than the amount you take home from it.
Paul Fussell, Class
There’s definitely an enormous difference between getting up at 5 am because you have an early shift assigned to you and getting up at the same early hour because your self-imposed productivity schedule demands it. The difference is rooted in the fact that it’s a lot harder to choose it anew every day than to accept the externally imposed reality. What a society values is what’s rare.
The capacity to contain and discipline the self is the highest class marker today because it’s becoming a rare quality.
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