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Upper-middle class is doctor/lawyer/professor/diplomat.
Upper-class is power, not job.
Totally different categories.
Oligarchs are upper-class.
Monarchs are upper-class.
To the upper-class, job-people are hirable-dogs, not equals.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/class-paul-fussell/1111206189?ean=9780671792251
Read that long-ago, & it has proved its right-framing consistently since then.
He got the fundamentals right.
There are other sub-class-systems, however:
The academic-class system, the financial-class system, etc.
But the fundamental givaway is this:
Power is what "validity" means in the upper-class.
Institution is what "validity" means in the middle-class. ( so, PhD is high-status within the middle-class, school-dropout is contemptible-inferior in their eyes ).
Money is what "validity" means in the working-class.
Underclass has its own hierarchy, too.. street-bosses, etc..
The parent-child relationship is a class-system!
But Fussell's right on the fundamental 3 categories in the class-system, & their "validity" anchorings.
The whole "Ivy League" thing is that it isn't the skills you have , that make you valid, it is being in the power-clique that does.
That is upper-class.
So, there's Venn-diagram intersection between raw-oligarchy & jobs .. so truly-upper-class could well have jobs, but .. it's the power, not the grind, that true-upper-class is.
When your power-connections are more important than your in-organization-day-to-day-decisions, then you're probably upper-class in mode, though your instinct may still be upper-middle-class, or financial-class ( which is above upper-middle-class ).
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True-upper-class is more likely to have a "job" than a job.
"Official Role", but not accountability, or daily-grind/stress.