How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
&gt; <i>In the UK, class consciousness is woven into the national identity. In America, however, people often like to pretend that a class system doesn’t really exist. But, of course, it does.</i><p>This is the most insidious part.<p>The media in the US has historically been 100% controlled by rich people, and all major media still is.<p>The evil rich people figured out that if you start a gender and race war among the 99%, you can distract them from the fact that they&#x27;re all being economically exploited and subjected to wage slavery.<p>The US has gotten richer and richer, if it functioned properly everyone could have enough without resorting to any radical policies. But as long as 70%+ of Americans are wallowing in economic depression there will be no lasting social progress. Just the way most rich people hope it stays.<p>The internet will almost certainly spawn a social movement to destroy the class system in the US. People are just waking up to how bad it is. The #MeToo movement only happened because rich people are losing media control, and it&#x27;s just one of many to come.