> Afaik, America has currently low movement between social classes - rich people are the ones who had rich parents and poor people had poor parents. The issue w

> Afaik, America has currently low movement between social classes - rich people are the ones who had rich parents and poor people had poor parents. The issue with landed gentry was not that they inherited stuff, it was disproportional power these people had combined with fixed social classes where your fait was pre-determined. It's not exactly a counter point, but there have been lots of new millionaires lately: > People got richer last year, with Americans making up nearly half of the new millionaires across the globe. According to Credit Suisse's annual wealth report, as many as 5.2 million people became millionaires in 2021; 2.5 million of those people were in the U.S. > "This is the largest increase in millionaire numbers recorded for any country in any year this century and reinforces the rapid rise in millionaire numbers seen in the United States since 2016," the report stated. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/us-gains-25-million-new-millionaires-in-2021/435759 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/us-gains-25-milli...