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Sure, but wealth-based classes are still missing a larger philosophical justification. The flip side of the virtue of social mobility, if you will. So the philo

• jampekka 3y ago
  I'd say the just world or similar is the contemporary philosophical justification. Fancier framing is that economical position reflects marginal productivity because of efficient markets. And "hard-work" and prosperity theology and genetical superiority and what have you. Marx's thesis is that a system of production/social organization produces ideology (or "superstructure") for it's justification and stability (materialism vs Hegel's idealism). The justifications (e.g. divine right) are probably always quite bad and not very universally accepted.