There’s a line about class that I think about a lot: “There are those who are where they are because they are doing what they are doing, and there are those who are doing what they are doing because they are where they are.” That difference between living wherever your employment takes you and having where you live dictate your employment is one of the most precarious divides in American life. Many on one side work their entire lives to get themselves or their children across the divide, while many of those who have made it fear nothing more than backsliding into failure.

The Bear, now in its third season on the confusingly-named FX on Hulu, is about a lot of things, but one of the most intense in an already blood pressure-raising show is the precariousness of that class divide. “I think it’s probably better for you to experience what it’s like to be poor, they say that leads to empathy,” one character tells his boss, who has just lost a fortune in the stock market. In what has to be the most common line of dialogue in The Bear, that character is promptly told to “go f*** yourself.”