I am sorry: that class is unimportant and easily escaped. If it was only a matter of with whom one decided to spend one's time, it would not matter very much at all. Except that, even if that was the only facet, it would continue to have economic repercussions: rich people and rich people's children would continue to have connections with the sorts of jobs and benefits to which other rich people have access, while everyone else was excluded. But it does go deeper than that: it affects the schools to which we go, the neighborhoods in which we live, the violences to which we are exposed, whether or not we are insured, who raises our children and who works and for how long and the sort of work that we do, and very much more.

Hullo, Christina Eater! I am sorry for not being a better livejournal detective.