Some people’s behaviors scream low status despite having money.
Some of you might be communicating the wrong things without even knowing it, so stick around to discover 15 low-status behaviors.
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1
Verbal or physical abuse of partner or family
That’s your partner, parents, or child. They’re yours!
They’re the ones who love you more than anyone else and yet you treat them poorly.
It’s like keying your own car. If this is how you treat the people you’re supposed to be putting on a pedestal, nobody can trust you to treat them any better.
The quality of your life boils down to the core of your inner circle relationships.
How you treat them is as good as it gets and people notice it, no matter how hard you try to hide it.
This is that kind of slimy, obvious low-status behavior
2
Blocking a lane by leaving your car with the hazard lights on so you can run into a store
You’ve seen these people before… They’re the ambulance chasers; they park on the crosswalk or on the grass; they bring their car literally to the beach; and more. And unfortunately, it’s usually an older BMW.
This low-status behavior showcases a blatant disregard for anyone else.
It doesn’t matter how expensive your car is if you’re an inconvenience to others.
These are the same people who love to break-test you and they get out of the car to scream.
They have all the time in the world because they’re usually unemployed but always have something going on the side.
3
Going out with a cold and sneezing openly
You don’t know just how bad that is until someone literally sneezes on you, which implies they are already in your personal space.
These two combined are the primary reason newer generations don’t want to go out in public.
Isn’t it ironic how “Calling in sick” is something you use as an excuse to not go to work when calling in sick should be the standard for “I’ll be working from home today because I have a cold and am considerate about your well-being”?
If you’ve got something, don’t share it around.
Funny how this point ended up not being about cold in the end, am I right?
When you make your work impossible to ignore, your “experience” or how long you’ve been doing it is irrelevant. See you next time!
4
Not dressing weather-appropriate
People will look down on you because it signals two things:
- You lack the awareness to realize you’re dressed inappropriately
- You lack the funds to acquire proper clothes.
Boys, if it’s snowing outside and we can see your ankles, you’re doing it wrong.
Girls, we shouldn’t be able to see your underwear unless it’s that time on the date.
5
Laughing at people trying to better themselves
Why do you laugh at someone who works hard? Why do you treat staff poorly?
How can you laugh at someone who is working at something that leads to a better life for them?
You don’t know their story. You don’t know their struggle.
They didn’t have it as easy growing up as you have, prick!
How dare you laugh at someone reading a self-development book when you can barely read?
How dare you put someone down who’s trying to start a small business when your parents paid for your car?
The kid who bought a Toyota out of his own money is more successful than the one driving a Range Rover their parents paid for!
Not everybody is fortunate enough to be born into a wealthy family that opens doors and pays for a high-level education, so leave this low-status behavior at the door.
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6
Casual Disgusting behaviors
We’re going there.
- You fart around people and laugh after.
- You pick your nose in public and play with your newfound treasure.
- You pull food out of your teeth with your fingernail, sniff it, and then eat it.
- You spit on the ground.
- You check your body odor with your hand after you scratch an itch.
The fact that people in India don’t buy deodorant and you still casually see people defecating on the street is why the rest of the world still sees you as having low-class behavior.
Smoking and vaping, blowing smoke that’s been inside of you in other people’s faces, or even not washing your hands in a public bathroom gives people the ick.
7
Littering
Pretty simple, right?
If you throw garbage where garbage shouldn’t be thrown, then you are garbage.
And before you say that someone else is paid to clean after you—in common spaces, you have lower status than the garbage you couldn’t find the power to properly dispose of.
Take a moment to think about it: if every person cleaned up after themselves, everything would be clean.
The fact that it doesn’t show you just how lazy most people are
On an individual level, the absolute worst are the people who throw garbage out of a car’s window, followed closely by those who go out into nature and leave their garbage there.
8
Graffiti or tagging your nickname on walls
You can count on one hand the number of instances where graffiti has beautified an area.
Murals and real art are completely different from your lame nickname or whatever this is:
Let’s be honest. You’re not Bansky, Lee, or Alec.
Here’s the thing: if your touch doesn’t increase the value of your canvas, you shouldn’t do it.
Tagging walls is just another form of littering.
You’re not creating any positive value; instead, you’re just being visually messy.
9
People who swear unnecessarily—the way you talk
Some people can’t seem to be able to go out and buy bread without dropping the f-bomb every 12 words.
To others, it signals a lack of vocabulary or an inability to control what comes out of your mouth.
It’s the same with people who say things like, “You feel me” or “You know watIamsaying”.
Another low-class behavior is when the way you speak doesn’t match your background or ethnicity.
We’re looking at you, Canadians, with whatever accent this is.
10
They would do anything for money
We know $50 is $50. But maybe you should have a little more respect for yourself.
Sometimes the money is too expensive!
You’ve met people like this before:
If you offered someone $5,000, they would get a tattoo of your name on their face!
Girls who would go out with someone just because they have money…
Or men deploying so much time and effort to scam others out of their fortunes—we’re looking at you, Sam Bankman Fried
Some people would sell their souls for money.
They would do anything for money except the one thing that would lead them to earn it legally and plentifully.
Just because you currently don’t have any skills doesn’t mean you can’t acquire them! And it’s no longer that expensive.
11
Being loud with the sole purpose of causing drama
As it is almost always the case, increasing the volume doesn’t improve the argument!
Nor does tilting your head while you speak or clapping for that matter.
12
Taking calls on the speaker or listening to music loudly
We feel like these are the same people who listen to music loudly with the windows down.
They’re the folks with the cheap Bluetooth speaker cranked all the way to 100 anywhere in public—on the beach, on hikes, or on public transport.
The fact that your private affairs aren’t private is up there when it comes to low-status behavior.
Not to mention the once again complete disregard for other people.
13
Having multiple baby mamas or daddies
We’re going there.
If you spread your legs too often to too many people, that’s a discussion only you can have.
But if you get pregnant by different people and they’re not around, you know it ain’t right, right?
The same way it reads, being broke means trying to skip paying child support to three different women because… and we quote: “She’s a baddie” and you wanted that last stroke, knowing full well your pull-out game is weak…
It boils down to self-control.
The more you lack it, the less people perceive you to be.
14
Cutting in front of other people
This happens regularly to people who wait in lines, but even more often in traffic.
There are some unspoken rules and some are actually legally required to follow rules that work together to maintain a well-functioning society.
Since these people failed their driver’s test multiple times before they got their permits, they might now know how lines work.
You’ve seen people use the emergency lane on the highway to avoid staying in traffic.
These people are the reason why it takes twice as long for an ambulance to reach you in case of an emergency as it should normally.
Don’t be that like that.
15
Ghosting or interrupting people
If you’re having a conversation, follow the protocol: beginning, middle, and end.
Be concise, communicate effectively, and don’t open your mouth just to hear yourself speak.
A growing problem is that of ghosting, which is the digital version of slamming a door into someone’s face, especially if they’re waiting for input from you.
As a sign of appreciation for staying until the end, here’s a sweet bonus:
Bonus
Only low-status people say they are high-status
It’s one of the unspoken rules of the world.
In order to build a reputation, people have to figure it out on their own.
That’s why you see these videos of influencers screaming at others about how important they are and nobody feels the same.
Social media has diluted our understanding of worth, where everyone thinks they’re a celebrity because everything is measured through likes.
Both valuable insights and booty pics are reacted to through likes, so in a sense, it’s an apple’s apples-to-apples comparison that lacks the fundamental distinctions between those two categories.
You win the game of status when you no longer feel the need to play the status games.
You win when you stop doing the things we mentioned on this list out of your understanding of the key role you play in society, not because we mentioned them here.
Hopefully, some of you will see value in the words above. If, by chance, you’ve identified any of these low-status behaviors, make sure you get them under control. See you next time!
