888 Know Your Place

<p>Society in America has once again reached aristocracy levels, as it did at its founding, and again in the late 19<sup>th</sup> Century, but there's a lot more people, a lot more money, and a lot more anger involved now. Athletes, entertainers & politicians are the top of the class heap, followed by random famous people, then The Rich, but everyone’s a peon below that. The Elite class, politicians & bureaucrats, think they know better than everyone else, and that they should be in charge, and the rest have accepted their subservient place.</p> <p>The biggest sign of the stratification is the popularity of the idea of a Universal Basic Income so that the proles wouldn't have to work if they didn't want to. Ignoring how that would turn out, the fact that so many people have lost all their ambition, and worse, think they are entitled to a life of leisure and sloth, is the highest form of privileged thinking. Most people don't even want to change their station in life anymore; they're satisfied with their data service, and drinking or getting high with their friends on the weekends is considered an achievement. People understand what class they're in, and they know their place in society, and they're okay with it.</p>