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Okay but there's a difference between being a doctor and owning a clinic. The clinic is real property. Owning property is what makes you bougie.

A surgeon renting space and having employees does not make them bougie. They still have to do butchery and sewing to make money, they're still workers.

People fixate on the prestige and relative financial comfort of the job title and lose track of the actual class relation. They do this all the time, and it's especially bad with doctors, lawyers, and athletes - high earning workers.