Metadata
- Author: Rob Henderson
- Full Title:: Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Sociology,
- URL:: https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for
- Finished date:: 2023-05-19
Highlights
distinction encompasses not only clothing or food or rituals. It also extends to ideas and beliefs and causes. (View Highlight)
In other words, high-status people desire wealth and status more than anyone else (View Highlight)
A survey from YouGov found that Americans in the highest income category were by far the most supportive of defunding the police (View Highlight)
They can afford to hold this position, because they already live in safe, often gated communities (View Highlight)
They found that individuals with higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck and connections rather than hard work (View Highlight)
an internal locus of control is associated with better academic, economic, health, and relationship outcomes (View Highlight)
they tell their own children about the importance of hard work and individual effort (View Highlight)
This doesn’t mean you don’t suffer the problem of heteronormativity.
Only the affluent can learn these things because ordinary people have real problems to worry about. (View Highlight)
What is the detrimental effect of knowing what is toric masculinity?
luxury beliefs can have long term detrimental effects for the poor and working class. (View Highlight)