Class confidence is an injury-trait acquired at birth, not current power

Evidence

“Class disadvantage is a form of injury inflicted on the person at birth,” David Smail explains, “The confident slouch of the hands-in-pocket, old Etonian cabinet minister speaks not so much as a current possession of power (on some measures the union boss might possess as much) as of a confidence which was sucked in with his mother’s milk.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1872

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to earlier chapters on class inferiority as ‘empirically unfalsifiable’ (ch33) and class markers persisting independent of current position. — connects to: Rational assessments of trustworthiness cannot be grounded in purely infantile behavioral learning — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 352; Confidence and trust are not substitutable but mutually reinforcing social attitudes — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1387; Class confidence is bodily inheritance, not current power holding — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1872

Broader Connections

• Rational assessments of trustworthiness cannot be grounded in purely infantile behavioral learning #corroborates (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 352
• Confidence and trust are not substitutable but mutually reinforcing social attitudes #contradicts (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1387