#Socioeconomic

[femininedating]

Dating a man with money or resources doesn't make you bad.

Women are supposed to choose the winners.

It's literally nature.

Even the female birds in the animal kingdom know better...

[politijohn]

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Did you read this story? Then read it again?

[travelingtwentysomething]

You know what's funny? The minute people start aiming higher and taking out the powerful and wealthy and "elite", they're going to change the gun laws. Because their goal has always been for us to stay fighting each other instead of looking towards them as the real threat to our life, liberty, and freedom.

[daisyjoyflower]

My thoughts/theory on the socioeconomic status of the main characters in Danny Phantom;

Tucker Foley - Middle class

It would seem he has been to the Amusement Park that Sam refers to in “Attack of the Killer Garage Sale” (as he knows the price to get it and the food expenses) meaning it is within his reach to go there, but not on a moment’s notice and not frequently, as he declines her offer to go, due to the expenses.

He can afford things like his PDAs, however he mentions in one episode that his current PDA isn’t paid off yet. This shows, his family, like many, can afford to make payments on electronic devices, however do have to pay in monthly installments and it’s a big enough deal that Tucker, at 14, is conscientious of the fact that his device is not paid off yet.

While we only see a few shots of Tucker’s house, it seems to be a fairly normal house and his bedroom appears to be a standard size bedroom (unlike Danny’s and Sam’s which are larger).

Even though he can’t afford unplanned trips to the amusement park and needs to make payments on certain items, he is never shown to be struggling for necessities, such as food and clothes.

This therefore, leads me to the conclusion that the Foleys are a part of the middle class.

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Danny Fenton - Upper Class

In “Attack of the Killer Garage Sale,” Danny’s parents make the statement that, as Fenton’s, they have plenty of money (but tell Danny he needs to earn his)

In “The Ultimate Enemy”, Jazz is seen to be telling her classmates that she has to choose between Hartford, Stanford, and Yale (all of which are expensive schools). Never is the money needed to go to these schools, mentioned as a problem though. And that can’t be blamed on “the show not tackling such issues,” as after Valerie’s family looses their money, Valerie is shown to have to work a job in order to save up for college. Therefore, it seems to be implied that the Fentons can afford to send Jazz to such a school, and still pay for Danny to go to college, two years later. The only loophole to this would be Jazz having a full ride scholarship to the school of her choosing, which is possible, but not probable.

When we see Danny’s house, it on the outside appears to be a normal size two story house, however Danny’s bedroom looks to be bigger than the average bedroom, some shots even making it look like it could be the size of a master bedroom. As well, both him and Jazz (the two kids of the house) are shown to have their own tvs in their bedrooms, something that isn’t standard, especially not at the time the show aired.

His parents have to pay for their ghost hunting equipment somehow.

This all makes it seem likely that Danny is actually from the upper class. It’s just not glaringly obvious, probably because his parents, rather than spend money on typical rich people things, such as fancy homes, ect., choose to spend their money on ghost hunting and lab equipment.

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Sam Manson - The 1%

The Mansons appear to be rich far beyond the Fentons. Sam states that her family is filthy rich. She was also self conscious enough about the amount of money they have, that she kept it hidden from Tucker and Danny for a long time.

Their house is huge. They have a screening room, bowling alley, middle of the night access to delivery services, and are said to be able to afford a plane and/or a yacht, most of which are out of reach to average upper class citizens.

There is an episode where she rhetorically asks why her parents can’t have day jobs, like normal parents, implying that her parents don’t work, at least not in the traditional sense.

She mentions that their money comes from her great grandfather, which tells us that her family’s fortune is “old money,” and there is enough of it that it’s been around for generations (though that fortune has probably grown over the years from being invested in the stock market and such)

With all this in mind, it seems the Manson’s are a part of the 1% or close to it.

[hasellia]

I want to know: do you feel dissociated from the current time? Have you noticed if any others have? & If yes to either, why do you think so? ( Writing why is NOT obligatory)

Author's thoughts & reasoning under the cut below V

As the year closes, I've noticed a lot of people feeling dissociated with the passing of time. This has been something I usually see at least once as a " time flies huh" kinda way. Maybe a liiitle bit more since the pandemic & with the current being internet so focused on the attention economy, understandably.

But within 2024; I've noticed so much more of this sense of " I should not be in this moment of time", and much much more from the people I would assume to be neurotypical or "well adjusted".

The people I've talked to agree on this: It is likely from how the business sector & hustle culture has influenced society in a "post" COVID-19 pandemic world. "Bali-bali" (hurry-hurry) is a term I hear a lot from a personal friend from Korea. The context being that folks post Korea-war had to act fast & snappy to rebuild their lives, & still act as such even if they're in prosperity. It's tearing children apart from how hard they're studying & adults from working.

It seems to be creeping here, too. For my personal micro-bubble, I understand. But not so for the world at large.

[letters-to-the-cosmos2710]

[spacespacespace]

Listening to Penelope Scott while making sociology notes is so fucking vibes

[dipperdesperado]

One of the most important books of the past 15 years is Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. The basic idea of it is that it describes the pervasive nature of capitalism. It seeps into our hopes, dreams, and thoughts, shaping how we currently understand the world and imagine what the world can be. It’s some spooky shit. Even so, the scarier thing in my mind is hierarchical realism. To me, that feels even more fundamental to our shared worldview than capitalism. Capitalism exists atop (or within) the hierarchy. Capitalism is a relationship of hierarchy. Instead of the top of the pyramid serving the bottom-most elements like in other complex systems (think of how the sun emits energy, plants photosynthesize that energy and animals eat those plants) the base of the pyramid toils for the sake of the top. In nature, the ant colony doesn’t “serve” the queen like we tend to think. It protects the queen because that means that the population can continue to exist. There are no orders being given. The colony efficiently self-organizes into emergent forms that efficiently solve problems. Simple sets of abilities and impulses combine to create elegant solutions.

In our social systems, with capitalism being one of the clearest examples, our hierarchies exist for the opposite reason. We protect kings not because it benefits us, but because it benefits them, at our expense. They then socially engineer consent and mindsets to reinforce their position. This impoverishes our imaginations and prevents us from seeing social possibilities outside of domination and coercion. This is the negation of autonomy and abolition.

This arrangement seems to be taken for granted in most folks’ minds. In our social, political, and economic realms, there is a tacit assumption that those relationships have to be vertically integrated. Orders have to come from the queen, carried out by the colony.

Unsurprisingly, this is a very undemocratic and un-egalitarian way to organize society, but it’s been the dominating mode of organizing at least since civilization has been a thing. This is because it allows for power to be unevenly distributed, and for that distribution to be reinforced over time. Authority is king (and kings are authority). Human value isn’t intrinsic. It is proportional to class position. This also makes it difficult to change social relationships. This arrangement stifles our progression as a species, and our ability to be in community, period. Whether that’s connecting with other humans or other natural beings, this foundational relationship of domination is very toxic for us.

For us to break free from this, we have to go in a different direction. We have to reorganize society using bottom-up approaches so that we can not only have all of the benefits of being in society but are able to provide those benefits for everyone, sustainably. By taking a horizontal orientation, we can take steps to model our societies off of the ecosystems that they reside in, making them resilient, adaptable, and ecological.

Understand that we don’t need a pyramidal structure to run society. Holding all of the decision-making power at the grassroots level allows for autonomy to flourish.

If you take nothing else from this, understand that realism does not equal reality. The pervasive nature of something, especially something man-made, does not mean that it was always this way, and it always has to be this way. Know that we can do something different and really reach the ideals of equality and freedom. We just have to be willing to put in the work.

[bununiii]

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[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Men are estranged from one another by the extreme inequality of fortunes, the great distance separating one class from another.

from Letters on Sympathy by Sophie de Grouchy (1798)

[b0bthebuilder35]

[travelingtwentysomething]

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[sage-green-kitchen]

Socioeconomics in The Great Gatsby

Socioeconomics is how economics, or wealth, impacts a person's place in socially. The message to the reader is on the first page when Nick is recalling something his father had told him and the novel states, “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had.” This tells the reader to be mindful of what they have and grateful for their advantages. The essay “Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby” shows this in the statement, "The “haves” are those with the control over these things, the natural, economic and human resources, while the “have-nots” are everybody else." The divide between the people who have and the people who don’t is still seen today where we have billionaires with more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime, and people who live paycheck to paycheck. This theme encourages readers to be aware of these differences and these inequalities. Socioeconomics is also the American Dream. The American Dream at it’s core is money and power, that in America everyone has equal opportunity to make money and gain power. This is not the case because, as shown in the book, if you are born rich you have all kinds of opportunities in education and never have to work a day in your life, like Daisy. However, for someone like Wilson it is much harder to make as much money as Daisy because he actually has to work for it and build up from the bottom instead of starting at the top. The characters are divided up into social classes as shown in a quote from the essay “Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”, "The Buchanans and Jay Gatsby belong to the class privileged through property and education, Nick Carraway could be considered to be a member of the propertyless intelligentsia and the Wilsons are members of the working class." The class distinctions in The Great Gatsby shows how the American Dream as the illusion that it is giving the message to the reader that not everyone is fortunate and that just because someone works hard, does not mean they will be able to become as wealthy as someone like Daisy or Gatsby. An example of these class distinctions is how Myrtle was treated after her death. They just laid her there for everyone to look at and no one even called a doctor. They didn’t even seem that interested in catching whoever killed her. If this had been Daisy or Jordan in this situation people would have acted much differently and treated them with more respect because of their money and popularity.

Socioeconomics is also shown in the book through cars, boats, and other electronics are used as a sign of socioeconomic succuss. Gatsby has a beautiful car that is new and expensive. It is described in the novel with the quote, “It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shelds that mirrored a dozen suns.” Even the connotations of the words used to describe the car, like “rich”, “triumphant”, bright”, and “mirrored a dozen suns”, shows the car is beautiful and fancy.  This shows he has a significant amount of money. Wilson on the other hand, doesn't have a nice car and is not wealthy. This is shown by the quote describing his garage, “The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.” These two quote show a stark contrast between Gatsby’s car and Wilsons and also a contrast of their lifestyles. Gatsby lives lavishly while Wilson lives without excessive luxury. The cars are also metaphors, Wilson is in the working class, he is building, fixing, and supporting the luxuries the upper class has. However, Gatsby has the nice car, and it kills someone in the working class showing the power he has even if he does no work. In an article from the National Association of Independent Schools, the author sums this up with the statement, “Fitzgerald’s automobile trope, which was connected to/intertwined with socioeconomic status.” The price of Wilsons car reflects his wealth and that connects to his social standings because unlike Gatsby, he can’t afford to have big elaborate paries filled with celebrities and influential people. Gatsby’s parties cost a lot of money and that is shown in the quote, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every monday theses same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.”  He spends the money every week to provide hundreds of people with food and drinks and entertainment and he has the ability to hold such social gatherings because of his economic success. The car also shows The American Dream. The American Dream is then revealed in the novel when Daisy and Gatsby hit Myrtle with the car. Since Daisy is meant to be this symbol of money that is The American Dream, and Myrtle was shown throughout the novel reaching for The American ream and wanting wealth, like when she got that dog in the beginning and wanting to be with Tom because he had money, it showed The American Dream’s reality crashing into Myrtle and killing her hope for reaching it.