Just so you know, I'm as poor as the next cube drone schmoe coming off an 18 month unemployed stretch.
Maybe you are now, but the fact that you can afford such devices at all means that you're affluent, whether you feel like it or not. It's not too surprising; people well into the upper class think of themselves as 'middle class', perhaps because they're not driving a gold-plated SUV which they wash in champagne every weekend.
I'm reluctant to get into a ghetto contest, but I've had a P3 800 running Win98 since early 2000, and as of this writing I still see no reason to get anything faster. My only real upgrade on it was to buy a slightly better video card to meet There's minimum requirements; 'better' in this case was just about the cheapest card Fry's still bothered to carry. And despite my being unemployed for the last three years, I'm under no illusion that I'm genuinely poor, as evidenced by the fact that I'm not on welfare and living in a doorway.
As for snobby, yes, you are... a good number of your LJ entries could be product endorsements for upscale consumer goods (for which Apple products qualify, incidentally). I'm not sure 'snobby' really counts as an insult in this case, since you seem rather proud of your choices, and of your contempt for products not meeting your standards.
Anyway, I suppose it was out of turn for me to jump on you at all, since I know you weren't addressing everyone, but rather just the people who can make expensive purchases at will. I probably shouldn't have said anything.
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Date: 2004-09-29 13:55 (UTC)Maybe you are now, but the fact that you can afford such devices at all means that you're affluent, whether you feel like it or not. It's not too surprising; people well into the upper class think of themselves as 'middle class', perhaps because they're not driving a gold-plated SUV which they wash in champagne every weekend.
I'm reluctant to get into a ghetto contest, but I've had a P3 800 running Win98 since early 2000, and as of this writing I still see no reason to get anything faster. My only real upgrade on it was to buy a slightly better video card to meet There's minimum requirements; 'better' in this case was just about the cheapest card Fry's still bothered to carry. And despite my being unemployed for the last three years, I'm under no illusion that I'm genuinely poor, as evidenced by the fact that I'm not on welfare and living in a doorway.
As for snobby, yes, you are... a good number of your LJ entries could be product endorsements for upscale consumer goods (for which Apple products qualify, incidentally). I'm not sure 'snobby' really counts as an insult in this case, since you seem rather proud of your choices, and of your contempt for products not meeting your standards.
Anyway, I suppose it was out of turn for me to jump on you at all, since I know you weren't addressing everyone, but rather just the people who can make expensive purchases at will. I probably shouldn't have said anything.