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Book Review: Fussell on Class

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136 points DaoIsTheWay | 1 comments | 05 Mar 21 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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gadders ◴[05 Mar 21 10:32 UTC] No.26355240[source]▶
You think America is bad, try living in the UK :-)

It's funny to see Scott laugh at the hierarchy of flowers in a garden, but things like that are common in the UK. I mean, they can be ignored to a greater or lesser degree but they do exist.

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1. bradleyjg ◴[05 Mar 21 14:41 UTC] No.26357320[source]▶
Visiting the UK office of a US tech company is funny. There’s at least three hierarchies in play:

1) The company one (employee, manager, director, etc.)

2) The UK class system

3) The techie machismo ladder (who is the biggest ninja, 10x, Superman programmer)

They interact in surprising ways. You never know who is going to defer to whom.