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" Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford. "

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" While households that make anywhere from $48,000 to $250,000 can call themselves middle class, to group such a wide range of incomes under one label, as politicians love to do, is to confuse the term entirely. "

Alissa Quart

Middle

Class

Politicians

" I grew up in New York City and in London. "

" Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations. "

" Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it. "

" If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our children's educational lives. Out of these lesson plans, we might talk more about what society values - and whether it rewards the right things. "

" Precariousness is not just a working-class thing. "

" Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location. "

" In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center. "

" Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways. "

" If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps. "

Alissa Quart

Future

Will

" There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent. "

" Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier. "

" The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all. "

" Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number. "

" Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.' "

" In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside. "

Alissa Quart

Social

Awareness

" In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate. "

" Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near. "

Alissa Quart

Compare

Live

" Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools. "

" The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal. "

" To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying. "

" Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment. "

" The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.' "

" No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth. "