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The rich have always imitated the rest of us.

Tattoos used to see you barred from many military and civil service organizations. Now ink is considered cosmopolitan and they’re allowed.

Low-income service workers used to occupy the top floors of residential buildings, and even set up makeshift accomodation on building roofs. They called them penthouses.

Look at the shift in treatment of marijuana in the United States over the last decade.

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can I have a source for that second claim? Wikipedia says penthouses were specifically designed to be upscale property as early as 1923

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My understanding is prior to the invention of the elevator, the expensive floor was the ground floor.

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like half of the Grateful Dead tour on the late 80s and early 90s

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this is the culture of most of my city. lots of people in very expensive clothes, beards, and etc that make them look like semi homeless bums. who work for a tech company and are banking six figures.

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Tech people look like semi homeless bums because we don’t know how to dress ourselves. We aren’t buying expensive clothes. We’re spending our money on hardware, goofy nerdy shit, or investing in stonks for some reason.

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You’ll be sitting all day, might as well be comfortable.

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That’s just called Burning Man

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Is that like your brother or what?

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Now thats what I call appropriating.

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