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>I don't know about the issues in India, but perhaps lower caste members just don't have access to education. The caste system is about natural born status not

>I don't know about the issues in India, but perhaps lower caste members just don't have access to education. The caste system is about natural born status not tied to economics, but ancestral in nature. You're born into your caste and there isn't mobility within the system. So, try as you might, if you're in the lower caste you're in the lower caste and people higher up are going to treat you that way regardless. I'm not overly familiar with it myself, but I understand it's a deeply ingrained cultural thing that sounds damaging beyond belief and incredibly bad idea, yet somehow inescapable.

Gravityloss 6y ago
It's just been stable for longer. The current inequality increasing systems in the west will lead to all kinds of equivalent effects. Multi-generational debt etc.
- bluGill 6y ago
  No, because in the west debt is not inherited. Wealth is, which is an advantage to the right, but even then the majority of people - even rich don't get that advantage right away. The big help the not-poor get is parents help their education. Not monetary help (that exists, but the poor get scholarships which in theory makes up the difference), but help as in a background that values education. If your peers and family expect you to get pregnant and drop out at 14 - it isn't really possible to get ahead in modern society the way most of us take for granted.