Reply #39: ...road to nowhere...

[kaho]

...surely categorisation / stereotyping by "class" is doomed to failure.
Doomed because it is human nature to desire and attain opportunity and wealth. Hence the worldwide (perhaps excepting parts of Africa) phenomenon of increasing living standards.

Consider India, where the caste system still holds sway, caste there may well equal class, but who would doubt that over all, the people of India (and China) altogether totalling a quarter of the Earth's population, are benefitting from the modernisation and industrialisation of their country? and that caste and class differences are being eroded by a growing "middle class?"

Anybody using this site going hungry these days?