Working-class lads and lasses make far more effort to look good when they’re out because no one is going to want them for their pay cheque; wealthy people can afford to look effortlessly casual.
Working-class nightclubs ban trainers and demand shirts with collars; posh nightclubs have no such rules.
Working class lads who earn a decent wedge in areas which still have affordable rents will quite likely be spending more on their car than their rent.
Struggling salesmen go out and buy a new car because projecting success is part of their means to be successful. (No, I do not understand why you wouldn’t look at a rep in a Porsche and think “they’re overcharging, I’ll go elsewhere” but, apparently,this is what they do.)
It’s easy to sneer at the wealthy indulging in these behaviours (and we should, of course, sneer). But there’s nothing strange or startling. They’re just doing it from a much wealthier base with a much stronger safety net because daddy will always be there to pay off the credit card.
This is pretty bog standard human psyche.
Working-class lads and lasses make far more effort to look good when they’re out because no one is going to want them for their pay cheque; wealthy people can afford to look effortlessly casual.
Working-class nightclubs ban trainers and demand shirts with collars; posh nightclubs have no such rules.
Working class lads who earn a decent wedge in areas which still have affordable rents will quite likely be spending more on their car than their rent.
Struggling salesmen go out and buy a new car because projecting success is part of their means to be successful. (No, I do not understand why you wouldn’t look at a rep in a Porsche and think “they’re overcharging, I’ll go elsewhere” but, apparently,this is what they do.)
It’s easy to sneer at the wealthy indulging in these behaviours (and we should, of course, sneer). But there’s nothing strange or startling. They’re just doing it from a much wealthier base with a much stronger safety net because daddy will always be there to pay off the credit card.