The ways in which people=s life changes are related to their location in the society=s hierarchical class system and the influence those circumstances have on their future prospects.
The question has often been asked, in what degree are the different classes of society useful or even necessary? And the answer was naturally a different one for every different era of history considered. There was undoubtedly a time when a territorial aristocracy was an unavoidable and necessary element of society. That, however, is very, very long ago. Then there was a time when a capitalist middle class, a bourgeoisie as the French call it, arose with equally unavoidable necessity, struggled against the territorial aristocracy, broke its political power, and in its turn became economically and politically predominant. But, since classes came about, there never was a time when society could not do without a working class. The name, the social status of that class has changed; the serf took the place of the slave, to be in his turn relieved by the free working man -- free from servitude but also free from any earthly possessions save his own labor force. But it is plain: whatever changes took place in the upper, non-producing ranks of society, society could not live without a class of producers. This class, then, is necessary under all circumstances -- though the time must come, when it will no longer be a class, when it will comprise all society.
Today in the United States there are millions of job opportunities. The fortunate can receive a college degree in a field, and the less fortunate may follow in their parents footsteps or pursue their own personal career either taking over the family business (which may not be a bad .
choice) or work extremely hard for insignificant pay. This is the way the world works. We are predestined in the social class either of the wealthy class, where everything is given to them and the life of luxury is inevitable.
