Good metric but doesn’t cover the issue of network membership which I see as the most important aspect of class.
Working Class - you know someone who knows where the job centre is.
Middle Class - you know people who know directors of local businesses.
Upper Class - you own the local businesses
Mike Cameron
Working-class - the state funded and fed me throughout my education journey.
Middle-class - someone else paid for my education.
Dave Andress
It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)
