Social Class Hierarchy

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Throughout history, human nature instinctively places people among an upper and lower class hierarchy; however, countless people placed in these classes are physically and mentally similar to those below and above them. To start, the upper class can be determined by the great surplus of money and riches that they own (Long). The human race has organized the economically insecure into the lower class because they do not have the money that humans crave and live for. If you do not have money, you do not get a say in anything ("Social Class Hierarchy"). Also, the prosperity that each class has tends to pass down to the next generation without changing. It is possible for the children to move into a different class, but it usually does not occur

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