> Again, I cannot fathom how one can fail to observe how class privilege bestows automatic success to certain people regardless of the speed at which they move.

> Again, I cannot fathom how one can fail to observe how class privilege bestows automatic success to certain people regardless of the speed at which they move. Economist Gregory Clarke has found that social mobility is/was about the same in modern America, modern Sweden, medieval Europe, ancient Rome, and the Communist bloc.[1] If the specifics of a society's class structure had a substantial effect on most or even many people's ability to pursue economic opportunities, then we wouldn't expect Clarke's findings to uphold. Instead there's hardly any variance in long-term social mobility between human societies. Certainly modern democratic socialist Scandinavia must impose less overt class privilege than 16th century aristocratic Scandinavia. Yet the two have nearly identically low mobility. (Note that social mobility and inequality are two different things. A country like the Soviet Union, may have the rich be only slightly richer than the poor, but still makes it hard to move from the latter into the former.) [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/social-mobility-equality-class-society https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/social...