Swinglowandslow
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I disagree with these guidelines that are being used to define class. IMO they were once relevant but are now so blurred they are meaningless.
I understand what he's saying but just disagree with it. If we wish to take a literal view of what middle class means then the Cambridge Dictionary is as good as any:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/middle-class
I think people are singing from the same hymn sheet, just looking in different places on it ?.
Your first sentence indicates something like that. Is the “class you mean ,when someone is defined in commendable terms as being a good person, thoughtful ,caring and well mannered, as having “class”? V is not talking about that “class”.
He is talking about how Upper class is defined, and same with Middle class and Working Class .
In those three strata there are good and bad people, clever and idiotic, caring and selfish.
But history and convention has merely labelled their (economic mainly) status as being in one of those three bands. That’s all.