Caste systems involve the inability to change your place in a social hierarchy. To suggest America is under such a system is nonsense. To suggest otherwise is to feign ignorance in order to reinforce a bad premise.

Looking for older men in my area is interesting. Who knew?

Is your ad-heavy blog doing well for you?

I use AD Block Plus so I don't see those ads.
Maybe I should disable the blocker.

when i clicked on the link just to see if the ad showed up.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, Michelle Robinson Obama and I all came from working class households. My father never even got to finish high school; he had to go to work to support 4 younger siblings because his mother refused to accept the punitive welfare of the early 20th century. But the daughters of each of those households and many thousands more just like them became members of the professional class. And it's still happening today, all around us.

It's true that those who are born into poor families, especially if they are not white, face more obstacles than if they grew up in more prosperous circumstances. I think it's fair to say that we have more class stratification than we might be willing to admit. However, a caste system is one in which you are stuck in the designated class into which you were born. In India, especially in rural areas, if you were born into a certain caste you could only marry another person from that caste, and you would not be able to take up any profession that was not assigned to your caste. If you came from the merchant caste you could not become a professor. If you were an Untouchable (Dalit) you could never do anything but sweep the streets and clean toilets. The caste system has been outlawed in India but it still persists in some areas. The United States has never had anything even close, for all its inequalities.

Do you really get enough click revenue to justify irritating most DUers?

However, the churn between the others is fairly high. People focus on the extremes because it fits the narrative; to look at how socially mobile people are between adjacent deciles would kill the buzz.

And the concentration of wealth is just increasing. I guess the rest of us get to churn along, happy as clams. And the stock market is going gang busters-that makes all those 50% 'rs happy!


https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-richest-americans-hold-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-of-country-study-finds/#447460153cf8

I am a 3rd generation American. I was the first male in my family to graduate from both college and graduate school. I did it without encouragement or support.

My wife is an immigrant. She is the first female in her family to earn college degree and she had no encouragement or support either.

Our daughter is mixed race. My wife and I worked hard to support her and giver the educational advantages and support we did not have. As a result she has earned her way into a PhD program at an Ivy League college where she is thriving.

None of this could have happened if we were confined to a caste.