Comment on The Disadvantages of an Elite EducationparentComments−yef18yCool. So, class consciousness is a lot of work. What, exactly, is the benefit?−Herring18yYou get to boast to your friends about that one time you went slumming and actually talked to a plumber.−mechanical_fish18yAsk someone who doesn't have indoor plumbing. :)But it's not as if socializing is as hard as I make it sound. It's like riding a bicycle -- if you enumerate all the computational tasks involved it sounds like a monumental feat, but kids do it all the time.
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Cool. So, class consciousness is a lot of work. What, exactly, is the benefit?
You get to boast to your friends about that one time you went slumming and actually talked to a plumber.
Ask someone who doesn't have indoor plumbing. :)
But it's not as if socializing is as hard as I make it sound. It's like riding a bicycle -- if you enumerate all the computational tasks involved it sounds like a monumental feat, but kids do it all the time.