#upperclasses — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #upperclasses, aggregated by home.social.
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Cutaway of an Imperial Roman domus (upper-class house in a city)
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Cutaway of an Imperial Roman domus (upper-class house in a city)
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Cutaway of an Imperial Roman domus (upper-class house in a city)
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What the #WorkingClass Really Believes
A new study tracks the evolution of #working-class beliefs, and those of more #upperclasses, over the past 65 years.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-21-what-the-working-class-really-believes/
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#ClarenceThomas & bottomless self-pity of #upperclasses Paul Campos interpreted its gist as: “It’s just fundamentally unreasonable to expect a SCOTUS justice 2 scrape along on nearly $300K per yr in #salary w/out expecting that he’ll accept a petit cadeau or 30 from #billionaires who just can’t stand sight of so much human suffering.” How much > would we have to pay Thomas to get him to stop taking free yacht voyages, private flights to private clubs from rich “friends”? https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-01-10/why-clarence-thomas-cant-make-ends-meet-on-285000-a-year-and-other-travails-of-the-rich
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https://archive.org/details/dc-wills
Index to District of Columbia Wills, 1801-1920 by Dorothy S. Provine
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#DC, #WashingtonDC, #districtofcolombia, #unitedstatesofamerika, #slaveowners, #blackchattelslavery, #wills, #will, #willandtestament, #lastwillandtestament, #propertyownership, #propertytransfers, #wealth, #intergenerationalwealth, #upperclassesfrom the introduction: "This book consists of an alphabetical name listing of more than 22,700 wills filed in the District of Colombia Orphans' Court (Probate Court) during the period 1801-1920. [...] The vast bulk of the wills, of course, were created by the local middle and upper class property owners to ensure that the distribution of their possessions was carried out according to their wishes."