India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement

Re:India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement by tomkarlo on Saturday April 13, 2013 @08:56PM (#5545365)

This is what folks in the upper class like to believe so they can feel like there's more separating them from the middle class than just money. It's also a comfort to believe that even if you end up bankrupt, you're still "upper class". (And often, that people who are new money and richer than you are somehow not "upper class.")

Make a million dollars a year, and you can go to all the charity balls and opera galas you want. And your kids can go to whatever prep school you want to send them to. That tells me it's about your wallet, not where your parents went to school.

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Re:India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement by redcircle on Saturday April 13, 2013 @10:55PM (#5545671)

It is quite possible for the middle class to move into the upper class. It is just ironic that the desire to entire the upper class is often part of neuroses that make it impossible to enter.

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Re:India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement by tomkarlo on Sunday April 14, 2013 @01:32AM (#5546016)

That's a pretty vague statement. Do you have any facts or citation to support it?

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Re:India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement by intended on Sunday April 14, 2013 @01:58AM (#5546053)

This is a good line of inquiry and one that should be put to the article itself.

The article takes one event, and then reapplies it liberally to a popular narrative.

I could never have imagined that this was HN material.

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