Book Review: Fussell on Class

Which of Fussell's classes do you reckon are most often found commenting on HN threads? What gives them away?

Roll 1d6. Phrase your response in the manner of the class indicated by the result of the dice roll, as follows: 1: upper ; 2: upper--middle ; 3: middle , 4; high prole; 5: mid-prole ; 6 low-prole.

I'd say the vast majority is upper-middle. People who have plenty of money but who had to earn it.

Given the call for a die roll, I think the intent was an exercise in attempting to describe a culture in terms of the rolled class, not actually selecting the one(s) best for HN. Either just for fun, or as an attempt to claim that the whole thing is just tea-leaf-reading and you can claim anything is "high" or "low".

(HN is mostly Prole-and-proud and, especially, Middle-who-erroneously-think-they're-Upper-Middle-because-they-can-afford-expensive-hiking-clothes, with some actual Upper-Middle but not that many—most of the Upper Middles in tech are in more people-person roles, if not ownership or management, than pure technical ones, even if they have some kind of tech background, or sometimes are in the more academic wing of tech)

Agree--mostly prole. I myself would like to think I was born low prole and have moved to high. From the review I believe in many aspects I have middle taste, but I just don't think I've actually made it yet.

> They are the most likely to be snobbish and overuse big words, the most obsessed with enforcing norms of virtuous behavior, and the least interested in privacy...

Nevermind, not middleclass -- definitely interested in privacy.