Is it not the case that at a fundamental level certification is a funneling mechanism to filter people and set expectations at an early stage in life? It's qui

Is it not the case that at a fundamental level certification is a funneling mechanism to filter people and set expectations at an early stage in life? It's quite arbitrary and probably not "fair" by any reasonable definition, but it seems to achieve that goal fairly well. I feel this is essentially why the UK idea of 'chuck 50% of the population in to University' failed. It created an expectation, in huge numbers of people, that they were going to have the good life. But our society is structured at a fundamental level around the class system. Our jobs, our homes, our cities, everything. There will still be millions of unskilled jobs with no respect afforded towards the workers. There will still be millions and millions of crappy prefab houses out there, far away from where the decent jobs are. There will still be sink estates. There will still be dead end towns. You could evacuate the streets of London and walk around and see, quite easily, that the entire city is built around our class system - even with the intentional mixing we've done geographically. I think it would take centuries to achieve a sensible level of equality even if such a thing were possible or desirable. It's something I think about often; social mobility is just shuffling the cards around; ultimately someone has to lose, not everyone gets the drawing room in Knightsbridge and lunches out on the town as they please.