1) How much money a person has.
2) The ‘quality’ of a person’s cultural activities.
3) The ‘quality’ and quantity of their friends.
‘Quality’ is, of course, defined according to traditionally
conditioned notions that the system then seeks to reinforce. (People who have
professional friends, for example, score higher than those whose friends are
bus drivers.) In other words, it’s essentially incestuous.
Shouldn’t we be getting beyond this by now? Do we need to
reinforce traditionally conditioned notions of quality? Do we need to
categorise people into classes in order to judge them, because that’s what this
is all about in the final analysis?
At the end of the report, all I could say was ‘What a
complete load of utter b****cks!’
I’m happy to say, however, that the report confirmed my status as one
of the Precariat. I think I might have a tee shirt printed along the lines of
the post title, then everyone can be in no doubt that I belong to the lowest
form of human life.
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