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Permalink Reply by LeaT on October 9, 2008 at 4:51pm

This is what is quite true in Sweden. Politicans belong to the upper class, few politicans choose to go with lower salaries etc and still live like the middle or working class. Since the decisions they make is from the view from upper class, working class most of all will not always benefit. There should really be outside informators in politics, that can give their opinions without being politicans and thus give a broader and more correct view of the current society.

Even a survey would be better and would take rather short time to finish.

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Permalink Reply by Rosa on October 6, 2008 at 11:46am

Your friend lives in a bubble lol

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Permalink Reply by Rikka on October 12, 2008 at 10:01pm

We just learned about this in sociology class. People in the US are less class conscious than Europeans who are less class conscious than Eastern Asians.

I didn't even realize that my parents were considered upper middle class and in the top 8 or so percent of the world's wealthy until maybe a year ago. I'm still coming to terms with the repercussions of that when it comes to my perception of the world around me. In my defense I still do not know my family's yearly income and my parents took special effort with my siblings and I to be inconspicuous consumers.


www.gapminder.org is a great site demonstrating the distribution of world wealth (among other things) and a great video explaining the site can be found at http://www.gapminder.org/video/lectures/ted-2006---debunking-myth-a...

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