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As I posted over there, money alone does not define class. One may quantify people by any standard such as education or profession. Are doctors really better than trash collectors? Are people with a master's degree necessarily better than non-college-educated folks, but not quite as high-class as those who earned a PhD? There are many, many ways to assign classes to people. One thing to note, though: the person doing the classifying generally classifies themself into the "highest" or "best" class available.

I honestly state that I generally stratify people into class by the overall cultural level, their manners, and/or their intelligence. Of course, this puts me into one of the highest categories, if not the highest one. Is classifying people thusly classy, in and of itself? No, but at least I'm honest about it. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]