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To begin today, just a quick mention of a phrase that has been bouncing around my head

for years, we didn't know we were poor.

It's something I've heard several times from different people in different contexts,

sometimes my personal life, probably sometimes people being interviewed and talking about it.

But at the heart of it, the fact that people can say that, I think, is trying to tell us

something. It's a window into how class is invisible

if you don't have a framework for comparison. If you can't see the rich people, then you don't feel

poor. But social media and a globalized culture has changed this. Now, everyone can see the gap. But without

analytical tools, awareness is, I think, more likely to become shame rather than politics.

So the question is, who benefits when we can feel class, but not name it exactly.

Now, although this show is best enjoyed with an attention span, we understand there's a chance

you won't make it to the end. So we like to give you the conclusion up front, leaving the mystery

of how we got there. We're going to understand how language shapes our perceptions of both

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