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How To Secure An Upper Middle Class Life

How much of The Good Life can be bought?

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Lane Scott
Sep 02, 2025
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The easiest way to understand the relative value of social capital and time is to think through why the nouveau riche are so irritating. In writing the first part of this series, What Does It Mean To Be Upper Middle Class?, I realized that “New Money” spends all its extra cash on the signs and status markers of the previous income group. So for example,…

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