Upper-middle class is doctor/lawyer/professor/diplomat.

Upper-class is power, not job.

Totally different categories.

Oligarchs are upper-class.

Monarchs are upper-class.

To the upper-class, job-people are hirable-dogs, not equals.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/class-paul-fussell/1111206189?ean=9780671792251

Read that long-ago, & it has proved its right-framing consistently since then.

He got the fundamentals right.

There are other sub-class-systems, however:

The academic-class system, the financial-class system, etc.

But the fundamental givaway is this:

Power is what “validity” means in the upper-class.

Institution is what “validity” means in the middle-class. ( so, PhD is high-status within the middle-class, school-dropout is contemptible-inferior in their eyes ).

Money is what “validity” means in the working-class.

Underclass has its own hierarchy, too… street-bosses, etc…

The parent-child relationship is a class-system!

But Fussell’s right on the fundamental 3 categories in the class-system, & their “validity” anchorings.

The whole “Ivy League” thing is that it isn’t the skills you have , that make you valid, it is being in the power-clique that does.

That is upper-class.

So, there’s Venn-diagram intersection between raw-oligarchy & jobs … so truly-upper-class could well have jobs, but … it’s the power, not the grind, that true-upper-class is.

When your power-connections are more important than your in-organization-day-to-day-decisions, then you’re probably upper-class in mode, though your instinct may still be upper-middle-class, or financial-class ( which is above upper-middle-class ).

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True-upper-class is more likely to have a “job” than a job.

“Official Role”, but not accountability, or daily-grind/stress.

Assistant to the Thunder Muscle sales person.

I recently attended the wedding of a friend who married into nobility. Most of the bride’s friends, who had all attended Eton or Cheltenham, worked in some capacity as estate or property managers.

Edit: The whole event had a pretty satirical feel to it - there was even the mentally unstable, rich daughter who, later in the evening, threw herself at you while drunk and went on and on about how awful her mother was, how boring her friends were, and all that. Oh, and there were quite a few rich old perverts as well who were constantly making lewd advances toward the much younger women in attendance. All in all, it was quite a strange wedding.

This is a really interesting question that people aren’t taking seriously.

It’s a huge mix. Because one of the key features of wealth and privilege is freedom: these people get to do more or less whatever they want.

For some, that’s whatever their parents do. Maybe they just want to make money and have martini lunches. But for a lot of them, they may just want to be a gaming YouTuber or a marine biologist, or a even run a social-justice focused non-profit.

As much as most of us resent unearned privilege, there’s no rule that says people who lucked into life are all stupid, mean, or incompetent. Many will become successful academics or devote themselves to politically righteous causes. The main problem is not what they do, but all the human potential among the unprivileged that is denied and squandered.

Many may also move between careers; etsy store one year, writer another. It’s very fluid.

Doctor, surgeon, lawyer, owner and founder of a furniture factory, biologist, writer and creator of dictionaries, physicist, software developer. Those are the jobs of the rich people (upper class and multi- millionaires) I know.

I’m blocking you now because I’m sick of your rage baity, stupid posts.

pretty sure the answer is “whichever they want, unless they are limited intelectually”. not everyone can become nasa engineer, but everyone can become nepotistic manager in their dad’s company.

NGOs

‘Senior Executice Finance Officer’ and other bullshit titles like that

Generally they inheret their parents businesses and expand them, if they wanna stay rich

A lot of them work for various non-profits as a way to support various causes. A majority of charities are run by the families of the wealthy.

A lot of high prestige but low pay organizations will have a lot of wealthy people working there. This includes museums, publishing houses, and other high art media.

You also have those who don’t have jobs exactly, but hobbies. They get into collecting enough of a thing to fill their own gallery. They have causes they contribute to on a part time basis. They may have a local estate where they get to pretend to be farmer.

It isn’t all going into business with Daddy.

They get jobs at white shoe law firms!

Bro, just ask your rich cousin all these questions lmfao

I don’t think rich people are gonna use random online forums

I would assume they would just go into the family business with a non college degree/free ride. Or if a child has two parents that are doctors they might want to also be a doctor or they might want to sell Nikes. No one knows that statistically

Generally anything that requires a masters degree or higher.