No official income threshold or net worth automatically places someone in the highly-sought-after upper class. In fact, the United States has long prided itself on being a classless society, striving ...

Can class differences come about endogenously, i.e. independent of birth and education? Researchers pursued this issue in a game theoretical study. They were able to show that the basic human need to ...

Finding your way into what most call "the upper class" remains a financial goal for millions of Americans. Upper-class lifestyles are the subject of escapist reality television and fantastical series ...

It's hard to determine a person's status based on their appearance alone, as not all wealth is flashy. Some of the most telling habits of upper-class people have nothing to do with showing off. They ...

Having a diverse workforce has numerous benefits to an organization, with recent MIT research highlighting that the most diverse workplaces tend to be the most profitable. A lot of conversations ...

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“ NOT you, but the house derides me,” said the wolf to the goat in the fable. This is the answer which society makes to any insolent or arrogant individual who happens to be out of its reach.

During the War, when George Bernard Shaw wanted to give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one “Heartbreak House” and the ...

America’s progressive tax system is based on graduated brackets that require higher earners to pay a larger percentage of their income than lower earners — at least on paper. I asked ChatGPT what ...