Social Class

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 4:35pm #1

Does anyone else feel anxious about the social status they are?

I see posts here saying if someone at 30 earns less than 50,000 they are losers, why do people feel the need to put hard working people down based on income levels?

If you rent can you be middle class or is middle class only homeowners?

EOQRTL · 10-09-2022 6:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058262813/social-class

People who put others down because of what they earn are scum. Ignore them. Anyone who works and earns their way is okay in my books be it 30k a year or 300k a year.

joseywhales · 10-09-2022 6:31pm

Believe me, there are plenty of rich losers out there.

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 6:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119600611#Comment_119600611

So if I can afford to rent my own place Im doing ok?

Ive been told on this forum Im entitled for expecting a home from doing a job. That if you make less than 50k or did an arts degree youve made big mistakes and that my generation are entitled and are not willing to sacrifice

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-09-2022 8:08pm

Class me hOle

most people in this country are a few family generations away from tenements or chasing a pig around a field

Vestiapx · 10-09-2022 8:22pm

Your class is not your income or your worth its your values and your attitude.

I'm proudly working middle class, I was when I was poor and I am now I'm not as poor.

My children see that I work and I do DIY, I saw my parents work and do DIY.

Ny father was an electrican my mother a typist, I went to school and then third level and theb I got a job and then a career.

If anyone looks down on me and my happy life with my wife and kids that is their problem.

StevenToast · 10-09-2022 8:35pm

If you work for a living, you have my respect.

Ryan Tubridy doesnt work.

10-09-2022 8:52pm

I vaguely recall Warren Buffet saying something along the lines of him not living that much better than average income people. That apart from modes of transport there's little difference in his lifestyle from an average Joe.

In this day and age what do the rich have that average earners dont. A private flight, ok. A pool? what else? A bigger house, a bigger tv a bigger engine. OK, ... care.

10-09-2022 9:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601190#Comment_119601190

Access.

They have access.

Imagine quoting one of the most privileged men on the planet and thinking you're some sort of big brain. Christ.

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 9:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601190#Comment_119601190

They own a home and dont have insecure rents.

Im not talking about billionaires. I rent and cant afford to buy a home at 30, so that makes me feel like Im of a lower social class and Im deeply ashamed of it

10-09-2022 9:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601242#Comment_119601242

Access to what?

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 9:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601295#Comment_119601295

Goods, services, houses, in fact literally everything.

10-09-2022 9:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601252#Comment_119601252

You don't have to be a billionaire to own a home. Or upper class.

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 9:27pm

Can we get back to my topic.

Can someone be middle class and rent or is renting in the same lower working class as living in social housing?

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 9:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601306#Comment_119601306

If your single you need to be rich to buy a home today in Dublin, or else your buying in an area that would make you lower class

10-09-2022 9:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601305#Comment_119601305

I have access to goods and services, I only need the one house. I can travel the globe in comfort, have a huge choice of goods dropped to my door, including food and drink. Amazing entertainment on demand, heat and light to my preference, communication at the touch of a button, you name it.

And Im no billionaire. Can I go to space, or shoot around in a lambo ... no. But so what. Practically all needs are met. So if someone pulls the snooty act on me its irrelevant. What are they going to brag about? That they went to Monaco while I only went to Majorca. That they have a heated steering wheel? Well Jesus.

10-09-2022 9:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601313#Comment_119601313

Thats nowadays. Plenty of homeowners in Dublin aren't "upper class". They just bought many years back.

silent_spark · 10-09-2022 9:35pm

Do we really need another one of these threads, OP?

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 9:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601326#Comment_119601326

The point of the thread is to ask if someone can only afford to rent and not buy a home does that make them lower/working class or can they still be normal middle class?

10-09-2022 9:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601344#Comment_119601344

Yep, it means that you're lower class. Oh well, guess you'll just have to live with the shame.

And don't go getting any ideas of revolting against us property owners.

deirdremf · 10-09-2022 10:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058262813/social-class

What a funny question!

Most people in Ireland are working class, but think they're middle class because they work in an office.

What you want to do is get out there and get involved in making the country a better place to live in instead of worrying if you're a better class of person.

The problem isn't how much you earn - the problem is that housing has been priced out of reach. This is due to political decisions, and has nothing to do with your social class.

Get involved, organise, and VOTE THEM OUT.

Housing99 · 10-09-2022 10:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119601570#Comment_119601570

Im not working class, my parents grew up working class but I went to a university which makes me middle class. My frustration is that no longer provides a middle class well off lifestyle. Had I never went to uni and left school early and was a renter on 40k I would be a lot happier as my expectations would not have been raised

Ten of Swords · 10-09-2022 11:20pm

Mod - Another one of these nonsensical threads? WTF?

Op if you start another one like this you can expect a permanent ban from this forum

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