The class system. It has been around for hundreds of years, from the time when the caste system went from King to servant and everything in between. Today, we might not have a king, but we definitely are defined by a class system. The interesting thing is that now the class system has a changing criteria. What defines the upper class, middle class and lower classes? Is it amount of money, education, housing, upbringing, lineage? All these factors can produce varying classes. Even the classes have been further broken down. We now have upper class, middle upper class, lower upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, and upper lower class. Confused? Who wouldn’t be.
So if money is generating the class system, then would the poorest be considered the lowest class, the very rich the upper class, and then have dollar amounts to move you from class to class? And yet someone with a ton of money can have very little class to speak of and someone with almost nothing can have a wealth to share that does not have a dollar sign. If education is the ruler, then those who dropped out of high school would be the lowest class and those with PhD degrees would be the upper class. We all know that the amount of education you have does not exactly make you worthy of the upper class.
Maybe we should just judge people on who they are and what they bring to the table, rather than how much money they have or where they went to school.
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