Do children from wealthy families, millionaire families, billionaire families, old-money families, or whatever exclusively date other people who also come from wealthy families? What if a rich kid’s dad wasn’t rich before they became rich? Like, do you think Tyler Perry’s or Oprah’s kids only date people from wealthy families despite Tyler and Oprah not coming from rich families?
Perhaps you’ve seen billionaires state that everybody with less wealth is usually clawing-for-benefits, but only among their own kind can they truly have friends.
that is, once one takes the principle & re-locates it properly, to any specific & significant kind of privilege 1 of the defining features of class-systems & caste-systems.
Class-segregation.
The prejudice I’ve been subjected-to by middle-class people, after becoming a homeless-person, is spectacular.
Class-prejudice is spectacular.
Read Paul Fussell’s books on the North American Class System, & your eyes will begin opening to what’s in front of you.
Until reading those, I was blind to it.
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