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Re:Poor in Tech by Mauricebranagh on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:20AM (#27208158)
And also surprising the author did not experience it at Uni where even well off middle class people, suddenly are mixing with much wealthier people.

I remeber my cousin who went to UMIST saying this and that side of the family was well off.

Its even more noticeable if you went to oxbridge and bumped into some one like Borris Johnson and his Bullingdon mates.

Re:Poor in Tech by OminousWeapons on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:26AM (#27209092)
I think this is school dependent. In my experience, many wealthy kids will hide behaviors they know are associated with being wealthy / hide their backgrounds in order to better fit in. The awkwardness goes both ways.
Re:Poor in Tech by Mauricebranagh on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:48AM (#27209407)
Middle class kids might, not upper class wealthy ones not so much.
Re:Poor in Tech by fossuser on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:21AM (#27208177)
This is highly dependent on university - I didn’t notice it much where I went (RPI), but it’s a lot more obvious at Stanford.
Re:Poor in Tech by kixiQu on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:24PM (#27211654)
Not all of us went to schools that have "much wealthier people" attending, of course.
Re:Poor in Tech by Mauricebranagh on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:21AM (#27218731)
I find that hard to believe unless your country has a very stratified higher education system - which is a bad thing.
Re:Poor in Tech by kixiQu on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:43PM (#27267391)
Well, my country is the US, and I am speaking from experience. I'm definitely not saying it's a good thing. It's just important to acknowledge that "the college experience" of elites and the elite-adjacent doesn't represent the common post-secondary case here.