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⌈ Secret Post #2643 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

(NAYRT) Stresses, worries, and unease? Okay. (I'm 15 and in the US, by the way.)

1. My mental issues may well keep me from getting through college (I can probably manage high school, though), my parents have no intention of supporting me for the rest of my life, and my dream job is very much a degree-required one.

2. Assuming I make it into college (not even through it, just into it and through a semester or two) I'm going to be paying off my student loans for decades after I graduate. My original plan was to join the military and get it covered that way, but as it turns out I'm medically disqualified. My current plan is to apply to as many scholarships as are humanly possible (being female, a decent essay writer, and planning to major in engineering has to count for something) and attend a state school in Kansas, both because it's a really good school in my major and because it's half the price of the better ones.

3. I'm drifting away from my friends and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Yes, we have good health insurance through Dad's job. Yes, we don't have to worry about bills and housing. Yes, we can afford things like new computers. Yes, we can afford to have a five-member nuclear family. But we still do budgets; my parents remember the days of Hamburger Helper being a luxury. We have an emergency fund to account for things like the plumbing giving out, and on occasion we do have to make sacrifices to deal with such problems; they're not major sacrifices like skipping meals, they're things like not going on that vacation we planned, but they do exist. We still read price tags and shop at Costco.

I know they're different problems. I know they're the sort of problems a lot of people would kill to have. But they are problems. We're rich, I'm not about to argue that, my father works for a tech company and my mother can stay home and homeschool us on his salary alone, but we are nowhere near the sort of rich you're talking about.

Re: Classism in fandom

[nyxelestia]

NAYRT, but I definitely see CostCo as...middle-class thrifty, if that makes sense? Because if you are lower class, then you're not going to have enough money for the membership fees or to buy in bulk, and if you are more central or upper middle class or any wealthier, then you really have no reason to buy in bulk in the first place. Which puts CostCo firmly in the realm of people in the middle class who want/need to save money in the long run, and can afford to burn a little extra money in the short run in order to do so.

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT: Yeah, pretty much this. We buy a lot of bulk non-perishables there; it's a bit more in the short run, for the membership fees, but it does save money in the long run, which is important.

Re: Classism in fandom

[nyxelestia]

Eh, depends on where you live, I think. In my experience, CostCo is definitely upper crust in cities, but tends to 'sink' towards lower middle class as you get out to the suburbs, and then goes 'back up' in rural areas.

It's mostly to do with how you're poor. If you are 'poor' by virtue of having a low salary and knowing how much you'll have next month, even if it's not much, that's very different than being poor as in living in paycheck-to-paycheck and not even knowing if you'll have a job next month, letalone income...yeah, you're going to be less inclined to burn money now to save money later.