After reading the "Creative Class" essay, I think it takes many professions away from the other hierarchy made for social classes. Things like engineers, analysists, lawyers and higher paying jobs fit in more with the upper class sense of identity. While writers, opinion-makers, and artists, who are in the same "creative class" will not have the same economic and grouping as the others. Also, throughout his essay, he lists two different groupings of this class, I think it is way too broad of a category. Then, he talks about the non creative class, the "service class." Which, I think he talks about far too bitterly. He needs to have a conversation with the Dalai Lama because he completely makes some jobs look so unimportant. Maybe it is because I agree with the Dalai Lama about every job having a purpose, but he gives this group a sense of inferiority. It did not shock me after reading this, to go back and read his biography and see that he is a writer and professor.
In gig, I decided to read about Heidi Klum's job as a super model. The way she talks so nonchalantly about being famous is humbling. She downplays how big she is, and seems like it hasn't gone to her head. Florida would put her in the "super creative core", but Klum does nothing more than take pictures. Yes, fantastic beautiful pictures but she has not "created meaningful new forms." Then I read Wendy Day's job experience as an avcocate for rappers. Which would fall into "service class" because of the lack of creativeness. Though the job is about diversity and interpretation of music, I get the feeling this job wouldn't cut it for Florida
's standards.
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