> Aside from demographic studies by governments to improve social mobility, what good can it do the world to know the class of an individual? In large part, go

> Aside from demographic studies by governments to improve social mobility, what good can it do the world to know the class of an individual? In large part, government decision makers are made up of people from dominant classes. They can hardly be relied upon to improve social mobility, as it's people like them who stand to lose from increased social mobility. An oppressed class that doesn't recognize itself can't organize as a class to combat that oppression.