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Corporate America was built by war heroes then rebuilt by hippies. No wonder Silicon Valley went from white collar to brownshirt.

For most of our history, professions were heritable in the form of tools, land, and
know-how. All the changed when Horace the tinsmith and Zebulon the wheelwright skittered toward the factories....


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Corporate America was built by war heroes then rebuilt by hippies. No wonder it took so long for us to notice Silicon Valley had gone from white collar to brownshirt.

For most of our history, professions were heritable in the form of tools, land, and know-how. All the changed when Horace the tinsmith and Zebulon the wheelwright skittered toward the factories....



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Corporate America was built by war heroes then rebuilt by hippies. No wonder it took so long for us to notice Silicon Valley had gone from white collar to brownshirt.

For most of our history, professions were heritable in the form of tools, land, and know-how. All the changed when Horace the tinsmith and Zebulon the wheelwright skittered toward the factories....







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Corporate America was built by war heroes then rebuilt by hippies. No wonder it took so long for us to notice Silicon Valley had gone from white collar to brownshirt.

For most of our history, professions were heritable in the form of tools, land, and know-how. All the changed when Horace the tinsmith and Zebulon the wheelwright skittered toward the factories....



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A thrice-weekly pre-dinner briefing for busy professionals who want to know just enough to seem like they know everything, Upper Middle’s “Cheatsheet” is the antidote to asp-y Axios apocrypha – a social briefing for people who care about status, taste, money, and how they co-mingle.

Status

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STATUS REPORTS
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Upper Middle’s “Status Reports” use survey data to decode how social, cultural, and financial capital shape both our choices and our sense of self. Each report draws on correlations to expose impulse-driving biases and the subtle ways we’ve been socialized—for better and for worse. In understanding people like us, we understand ourselves.

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The Upper Middle “Self-Presentation Survey” examined how we present ourselves in social settings – particularly among perceived peers. Specifically, it dove deep on soft signaling.
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RARIFIED WILDS

The Upper Middle “Outdoorsy Survey” examined how we engage with, conceptualize, and fetishize nature. The survey data suggests that Nalgene-carrying weekend trippers clustered in metroplexes valorize “pure” nature, but can’t necessarily afford it.
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ANTSY NEIGHBORS

Our “Where Next Survey” explored how we think about moving: not just where we might go, but how we consider what those choices say about our class position, taste, and willingness to compromise. The results indicate that we’re house-proud and restless,
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The Editor

An award-winning & losing journalist, Andrew Burmon has served as the Editor of Inverse, Fatherly, and SPY. He is the co-author of Fatherhood (Harper Horizon) and the product of elite schools, New England ennui, psychopharmacology, Catholic/ Jewish guilt, too many books, smart women, and his own bad decisions. As an infant, he pulled the silver spoon from his mouth, stuck it in his eye, and cried.





                   




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