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Using Micheal O Church's model of social class with three ladders, labour, gentry and elite has anyone experienced the journey from G2 to E4? My family has been G2/G3 for several generations and most people I know are in that category. My mindset, my way of being and my values are very much gentry even though I am into dissident politics.
Do to ballsy moves and living on nothing for years my company is not at a stage where I am an E4. I have also started to interact with people at an E3/E2 level. I find them to be in an uncanny valley where they are in many ways similar to the gentry but still fundamentally different from me.
Do you have any advice for managing this transition?
Do not expect to ever become a true member of the new class you're spending time with. You're an immigrant and always will be. This isn't bad and one can be plenty accepted and appreciated as an immigrant but insisting on being perceived as something you're not is seen as obnoxious.
Class is something you grow up into and it's only your children or even grandchildren that will be real members of the new class.
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