The Physical Appearance of Class Differences
As someone (nominally) adhering to a leftist political ideology, the continued existence (and strengthening) of social class differences is quite a major issue for me. Obviously, as all leftists, I believe that the lack of equality in opportunity (or rather, the existence of double standards in which people at higher social classes get better access to education, job training, and business relationships that enable them to have greater chance of obtaining higher incomes...elitism, in short) is the fundamental reason for class gap to emerge. With elitism, social mobility that allows for descendants of lower class to move upward in social hierarchy exists just as an idealized principle. But at this point in time, I would like to question a basic premise of this argument. In modern society, we define social class as simply as a matter of income, as we assume that better educated people with jobs that require more sophistication is bound to make more money. Furthermore, we assume that t