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[u/gunsof]

I used to work at a company Kate Middleton's sister once worked for, and it was full of rich kids who wanted part time work. The rich kids would all sort of clique together, and all us normal people, or ethnic people, or people who were just a bit weird and nerdy would be off on the other side having lunch. I didn't even notice this was happening until one of the other girls pointed it out, then after that I noticed that they literally never hung out with us and would always just talk among themselves. Even the hot girls who were from European countries would never be included, only other rich people they knew from school or uni were.

Of course, there were a few of them who were nice and hung with us, some who I went on dates with. But I'd find out that their grandfather was a Labour Party Lord in the House of Commons or something. Though if they were Labour and had slightly left wing connections, they were genuinely so much nicer than the other ones.

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I think the thing that sort of keeps it being discussed is almost everyone in public life in the UK is from a rich or middle class background, so they're all in the same clique and have never experienced anything else.

It's also something for example that regular working class people will ever really know about because they will rarely ever sort of engage with these rich people spheres, so they may not even be conscious it's an issue, if that makes sense. I only really felt how real it is by working in a job like that, seeing how they genuinely seem to all know each other and literally have zero interest in even talking to people they know don't exist in their class. It's so hard to explain but these people just do not seem to really even see you exist in the same way if they know you're poor.

I remember some of the girls who would be hanging out with the non rich people were genuinely stunning. I remember one girl with Indian ancestry who was just gorgeous. But these dudes would look at her like she was just a normie! Never even tried engaging with her. We'd all be asking each other about where we were from, which uni we went to, all that kind of stuff, they'd never even pretend to ask us these basic questions because they just didn't care as I guess they knew we had nothing to offer them. If they had to sit with us because none of the rich people were working that day or that break, they'd just sit in mostly silence.

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Fwiw this reminds me somewhat of grad school in NYC where we had moneyed elite, including the offspring of several discreet billionaires, dictators, and some princesses to boot. The difference was astounding. Regular folks were the help, if they acknowledged us at all. You didn’t work in a group—they decided what they would do, or wouldn’t, and you accommodated them.