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What about the people that earned their keep as category one? For example I have friends who are refugees who now fit into bracket one.
This article makes it seem like category 1 are self entitled yuppie brats.
Even if this article is a satire peace, it’s extremely ignorant. What about the people that earned their keep as category one? For example I have friends who are refugees who now fit into bracket one. This article makes it seem like category 1 are self entitled yuppie brats.
> You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you emphasize that it “almost bankrupted your parents,” one of whom is an engineer, and the other of whom is a clinical psychologist who has written two best-selling self-help books.
Obviously this piece is not a comprehensive list of all classes of people in the Bay Area. Just 3 common tropes.
I have definitely met tons of individuals in SF/Oakland who fit these stereotypes. Also, the individuals I met who resemble the second stereotype are the most inconsistent in terms of ideals. They want to be rich, but they’d rather accrue “moral capital”. It’s quite the oxymoron.
Who doesn’t want to be rich, given the chance? We’re crabs in a bucket, we’re just too evolved to admit it.
I struggle with this idea as a consequence of growing up among conflicting ideas. Will I send my kids to public school to do our part to avoid further segregation of schools, or send them to private school because we can afford to and they’ll get better teachers? There’s a name for this: opportunity hoarding. It’s a contributor to inequality in the US. But that doesn’t lessen the internal conflict.
This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
There are two reasons I'm guessing the author doesn't see himself as part of the working class. 1. He doesn't make fun of the working class like he does to the other two. Either because he doesn't know them well enough to do so, or because he doesn't want to insult them. 2. The UAW locals in the Bay Area represent graduate students, postdocs, and nonprofit workers. No one in "service jobs or government jobs" or "nurs…
Many journalist types are the first group playing in the second group. It's hard to make it otherwise.
Even if this article is a satire peace, it’s extremely ignorant. What about the people that earned their keep as category one? For example I have friends who are refugees who now fit into bracket one. This article makes it seem like category 1 are self entitled yuppie brats.
Your refugee friends probably didn't fit this intro to bracket one: > You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you emphasize that it “almost bankrupted your parents,” one of whom is an engineer, and the other of whom is a clinical psychologist who has written two best-se…
Bracket one broadly is intended to apply to many if not most upper middle class professionals, including ones who went to top public schools. Some just happen to enter the circle later in life (their 20s rather than at birth).
This ignores a huge chunk of the bay area: first generation tech immigrants. Not working class, not elites, not hip.
I am fairly certain that this was written from the perspective of people who were born and raised in the Bay Area, which first generation tech immigrants by definition cannot be. It’s also a whimsical satire piece, so I wouldn’t expect it to include every group. That said, note the the site has follow on stories for each group, so maybe they expanded the groups.
You order your groceries via app. You make restaurant
reservations via app. You have your laundry picked up via
app. You manage your investments via app. You have casual
sex via app. You refill your Xanax prescription via app.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am fairly certain that this was written from the perspective of people who were born and raised in the Bay Area, which first generation tech immigrants by definition cannot be. It’s also a whimsical satire piece, so I wouldn’t expect it to include every group. That said, note the the site has follow on stories for each group, so maybe they expanded the groups.
The second one was from Sacramento, which isn’t the Bay Area... and the first one suggest two places they were born that are on the east coast.
- friends moved to Sac because it’s cheaper.
- some folks went to university on the east coast.
Maybe I missed some details.