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How you dress is very important. Knowing enough about current events and having your own, thoughtful opinion about them. Knowing a number of books and using the
by saget 9y ago
How you dress is very important. Knowing enough about current events and having your own, thoughtful opinion about them. Knowing a number of books and using them in conversation. Rules on when to be blunt are different. Never order a burger at a restaurant. I could go on but it's a hard thing to summarize. (source: was middle/lower class, now have many 1% friends)
- gf263 9y ago>never order a burger at a restaurant Whelp there goes my dreams of hanging with rich people
- macNchz 9y agoAu contraire, just stop by JG Melon on Manhattan's Upper East Side, longtime favorite burger joint of wealthy prep school types (and Mike Bloomberg).
- RmDen 9y agooh wow.. brings back memories... back in the 90s use to go there for dinner on Thursday and then to Webster Hall for Psychedelic Thursdays (free entry with train badge/button) They had good burgers and chef salad was good as well... P. J. Clarke's is another one where you could get decent burgers.....
- gf263 9y agoGreat, I’m moving to Manhattan in a month!
- pb 9y agoWhat's wrong with burgers? Expensive restaurants often have really good burgers.
- tytytytytytytyt 9y agoAnd Ikea has some really good furniture one could assemble themselves, too...
- ericd 9y agoThe only way to become wealthy is to spend less than you make. The only way to stay wealthy is to spend less than you make (and have your investments outpace inflation). One of the best ways to do that is to not inflate your lifestyle, like starting to think you're too good for things like putting together your furniture from Ikea.
- afterburner 9y ago> The only way to become wealthy is to spend less than you make. This is hilariously wrong.
- wmeredith 9y agoOver the long term, it is correct. I think you may be spending with investments.
- ericd 9y agoFeel free to elaborate on why it's wrong. I don't mean spending less than you make at all times, and I don't mean "make" as in "earn at a wage-earning job", there are many more ways to make money than that. In the long term, your wealth is the money you've made (including capital gains), minus what you've spent. You might say that's completely obvious, but it helps some people to be reminded of it.
- greenleafjacob 9y agoIt's not wrong, but think of it this way: if you short a stock, your downside exposure is unlimited because the price can go arbitrarily high, but your upside is finite because the stock can only go to zero. In the same way, you can only decrease your spending so much, even to zero, but you can increase your income by an unlimited amount.
- saget 9y agoI think it has to do with it being a finger food and having less "class" associated with it. It's not always an issue but I have definitely received judgment for ordering a burger
- gt_ 9y agoin America, it suggests an acclimation to fast food.
- munificent 9y agoIn America, everyone eats burgers and is acclimated to fast food.
- nathanasmith 9y agoThis is not even remotely true. Were you joking?
- hkmurakami 9y agoFriend's father is thoroughly blue blooded and won't even eat fries with his fingers (will use a knife and fork)
- walshemj 9y agoI was told by a friend in sales that it was an sacking offence for an IBM salesman to be seen in a Mc Donald's
- sxates 9y agoThe burger at a nice restaurant is usually the token 'affordable' item. That said, I'm a big fan of burgers and order them often. Screw what other people think.
- stcredzero 9y agoNever order a burger at a restaurant. I've noticed that waiters/waitresses seem to treat me worse if I order a beer where I could've ordered wine. Especially when the cuisine is French or centered around steak.
- kbenson 9y agoI could see that. Luckily, craft brewing is getting so big that some places also have interesting beer selections presented almost like a wine list. Probably not French places though, or higher end steakhouses. :/
- emodendroket 9y agoI mean, if you're into sour beers at all you can easily pay fine wine-like prices for beer.
- emodendroket 9y agoWell, the hell with them. Beer is the better drink and making it requires more sophistication (it's definitely a more complicated process).
- cat199 9y ago> Never order a burger at a restaurant. ... unless you are taking part in some 'whimsically proletarian' sort of event, or making some sort of 'statement'
- philipkglass 9y agoThe rules about books, food, and current events could just as well come from "how to fit in with graduate students in the humanities (and sometimes other disciplines)." Which might explain why I and my friends never "coded" as poor when I was in graduate school, even though I was technically living below the federal poverty line for a few years.
- kd0amg 9y agoIt's sort of a weird position and a good example for illustrating the distinction between social and economic standing. Grad school often feels like an extended exercise in class-passing.
- yellowstuff 9y agoThe burger thing depends on context. I know some law firm partners who regularly get burgers at Peter Luger (popular steakhouse) with each other, but would never get a burger at a dinner with clients.