[spoonjim]

The marker of low socioeconomic status in a remote environment is disruptions to your video call. Kids crying, people walking through your background, people yelling, neighborhood dogs barking, etc. is something that doesn't get into your call when you're rich.

[chasd00]

Mostly right except for kids. All up and down the org chart at my firm there’s been interruptions by children haha. Also, sometimes things just happen no matter who you are. There was a US Supreme Court hearing over video chat and someone on the call flushed a toilet.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/06/politics/toilet-flush-sup...

[spoonjim]

Sure, but the richer you are the less it happens, because you have staff to take care of kids, etc. Although I have noticed that kids appear on camera at the most senior and junior levels of the company. If I am working with an low-level assistant to get something done she might have a kid pop on camera and she's super embarrassed about it. If the CFO has his kid wander into the room in an all hands he picks her up and shows her off on camera. You'd like to think that this could normalize it for the assistant but that's of course not how power works.