Keeping An AI Out
Speculative stocks rebound from early sell-off
Tech giants lead the recovery as investors regain confidence in growth stocks
For the Uncomfortably Comfortable
Wetting the
Sunbed
The last acceptable form of class snobbery is science-based condescension toward middle-class people making unhealthy decisions.
We Help You....
📊 Keep score (w/ peer data).
🎉 Win your next dinner party.
✨ Make the best of a good situation.
Task Masters
There's been a prestige inversion for white collar workers. Profits used to follow the product and prestige followed the profits. Not anymore.
Quality Vs. Control
If you're reading this, there's a roughly 78.5% chance you participated in the strangest sporting culture on earth: American Youth Soccer.
synthetic Heritage
Preppy is an aesthetic. Heritage is an idea — it describes a continuity of behavior, manners, and obligations that outlasts individuals.
STATUS REPORTS
Upper Middle's "Status Reports" use survey data to decode how social, cultural, and financial forces shape both our choices and our sense of self. Each report draws on correlations to expose impulse-driving biases and the subtle ways we've been socialized—for better and for worse. In understanding people like us, we understand ourselves.
Therapyspeak
How mental health language became the new status marker for educated professionals navigating workplace dynamics.
Financial Whoopsies
Why the upper middle class makes surprisingly poor financial decisions despite having access to better information.
Guilty Pleasures
How consumption patterns reveal class anxieties through what we allow ourselves to enjoy without apology.
More Coming Soon
Stay tuned for more Status Reports exploring the hidden forces shaping upper middle class behavior and identity.
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Sherwood
Keeping An AI Out
Beyond Meat's refinancing efforts
Tesla is back in the negative this year
POET Technologies slumps after recent surge
Samsung Galaxy offers on report that Galaxy S25
Beyond Meat's refinancing efforts
Tesla is back in the negative this year
POET Technologies slumps after recent surge
Samsung Galaxy offers on report that Galaxy S25
