Originally Posted by rants

I am reading about this topic and I found this on a pbs site :

At the bottom, people tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have. In the middle, people grant that money has something to do with it, but think education and the kind of work you do almost equally important. Nearer the top, people perceive that taste, values, ideas, style, and behavior are indispensable criteria of class, regardless of money or occupation or education.

So their saying that basically if you only use money to identify class, that's actually a sign of being low-class