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Ever read the science fiction book The Man Who Fell to Earth? The main character in it is an alien who comes to America and is very shocked to find out all Americans are not wealthy, white, young, and beautiful like he’s always seen on the Earth’s TV broadcasts. Plenty of people want to encourage unrealistic expectations and identification with the rich. If people who are not wealthy but are actually middle class are taught and conditioned to think of the wealthy as just like them, middle class people will be more likely to spend just to keep up with what they falsely think a middle class lifestyle is. That is what is wanted by advertisers, many industries that depend on over-consumption, wealthy elites themselves, and some people with conservative ideas. (Not conservatives driven by moral or religious concerns usually, but ‘free market’ ones or conservatives who are hostile to the poor and worshipful of the rich.) If the rich present themselves as ‘just like you’ (even though it’s not true, the wealthy let their money work for them instead of working like the rest of us), it’s because they know it will make people less likely to resent them.

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Name : ACC25048, Age : 36, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

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