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Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rich have always imitated the rest of us.

Tattoos used to see you barred from many military and civil service organizations. Now ink is considered cosmopolitan and they're allowed.

Low-income service workers used to occupy the top floors of residential buildings, and even set up makeshift accomodation on building roofs. They called them penthouses.

Look at the shift in treatment of marijuana in the United States over the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

can I have a source for that second claim? Wikipedia says penthouses were specifically designed to be upscale property as early as 1923

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

My understanding is prior to the invention of the elevator, the expensive floor was the ground floor.