These days I don't engage in as much conversations as I want with both family and friends. A lot of it is not directly my fault due to geographical differences, yet I believe a lot could still be done on my part by way of effort. Well I had the opportunity of catching up with one of my Cousins yesterday and it was very homely.
She's younger than me around her Mid Twenties and still exploring life, yet ill say she has a good head on her shoulders. We explored the topic of relationships yesterday, specifically hers and something rather striking came out from that conversation. She recently turned down a guy who she believed would have been a great guy because of his profession - He was an electrician running his own business and he did not have a college degree.
Now I didn't try to talk her out of it, but I was certainly intrigued by it. This happens a lot more than we realize. I don't think it is right and believe it poses a long term problem, if we aren't already facing such an issue. In our society of today, we have fully embraced status over substance and that seems to have influenced the younger generations heavily.
I guess classism has always existed, but I do feel a certain way about the mindset and how it has become ubiquitous with our reasoning. The rejection of men like that will only lead to those critical jobs becoming less desirable and everyone going into podcasting or sociology for instance (no offence to our sociology majors).
In the same vein Onlyfans is seen as a liberating and lucrative option to finance ones academic learning and become wealthy. It appears to be celebrated now even, or at least accepted. I personally think we're degenerating into something that we don't know the full extent of its consequences yet, but time will tell.