Sunday, March 26, 2017

OUGD505 - Product, Range & Distribution - Middle Class Problems by Benjamin Lee


Since 2010, Benjamin Lee has run the hugely popular @MiddleClassProb account on twitter, and in his book of the same name, Middle Class Problems, he has selected the all-time highlights.

Described as 'a hilarious collection of the most agonizing real-life inconveniences faced by the iPhone-losing, polenta-burning, Eurostar-missing middle classes,' the book is divided in to subject sections - these being:

  • Eating in.
  • Eating out.
  • Shopping.
  • Quinoa. 
  • Drinking.
  • Work.
  • Technology.
  • Christmas.
  • The help.
  • At home.
  • On holiday.
  • Looking good.
The book satirises the middle-class for the dramatising of trivial matters typically experienced in first-world counties such as Britain. Examples of this and the book's content are featured below:






Ultimately, the book stereotypes the middle-class by using humorous tweets and expressions that give insight in to the privileged lifestyles of higher-class society. The books content in reality has no affect on class - for example, anyone can eat quinoa, lower, middle or upper-class persons of society. This is something I may be able to explore for my own resolution to the British class system and the perceptions created by it

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