It can make it easier to move across class lines assuming the top dogs don’t make it harder to move up, but they don’t go away. Not even in social democracies like the Scandinavian countries.
It eliminates the concept of classes, but not the reality. We’re in a situation where all those making more than $20,000 per year but less than $2,000,000 all consider themselves “Middle Class.”
Of course, this strip shows the daughter of a billionaire who seems to believe we’re in a class-free system, which is about par for the course. If she were the daughter of an employee of Pillsbury Pharmaceutical rather than of its owner, she might see things in a different light.
When the child of a janitor is as likely to wind up a multi-millionaire as the child of a multi-millionaire, and when the child of a multi-millionaire is as likely to end up a janitor as the child of a janitor, then we might be able to take “inheritance” out of the equation.
Yes, there are other factors involved, including brains, hard work, ambition, and guts, but also including connections, better education at all levels, start-up capital, and family example, these last of which are perks of the accident of being born rich.
Edcole1961 over 13 years ago
It may change the role of classes, but it rarely eliminates them.
bdaverin over 13 years ago
It can make it easier to move across class lines assuming the top dogs don’t make it harder to move up, but they don’t go away. Not even in social democracies like the Scandinavian countries.
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 13 years ago
Then there are new aristocracies based entirely on depriving working people of wages and bilking the public on mortgages.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
You said you were high classWell that was just a lie.You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Class—-peanut butter and ring dings.
runar over 13 years ago
They become aristocricacies based on ownership rather than birthright.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
It eliminates the concept of classes, but not the reality. We’re in a situation where all those making more than $20,000 per year but less than $2,000,000 all consider themselves “Middle Class.”
Of course, this strip shows the daughter of a billionaire who seems to believe we’re in a class-free system, which is about par for the course. If she were the daughter of an employee of Pillsbury Pharmaceutical rather than of its owner, she might see things in a different light.
RaiseMoreHell over 13 years ago
Will Durant- “Power in kingdoms rests with kings, in theocracies with priests, and in democracies with money.”
lewisbower over 13 years ago
Night Gaunt. Is it the lazy or unambitious who believe wealth is inherited. It’s made by brains, hard work,ambition, or , did I mention guts
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
When the child of a janitor is as likely to wind up a multi-millionaire as the child of a multi-millionaire, and when the child of a multi-millionaire is as likely to end up a janitor as the child of a janitor, then we might be able to take “inheritance” out of the equation.
Yes, there are other factors involved, including brains, hard work, ambition, and guts, but also including connections, better education at all levels, start-up capital, and family example, these last of which are perks of the accident of being born rich.