Class Structure of Society

There are many people and in order to find a means of quickly rating someone, there are categories. This is common for psychology as well as education and sociology.

In society we usually have three classes: lower, middle, upper. The characteristics:

• Lower class. They think they are the middle class. They work in the factory. Or they are farmers. Or they drive trains. Or they are beggars. They live in council flats. Or they live in farms. They're poor. They don't read books. They do boring things all the day. But they don't think these things are boring. They usually think the world is just like that. They accept it. They hardly revolt. They only revolt if they have a leader. This leader usually comes from a higher class. Like Lenin. Lenin belonged to the upper class.

• Middle class. The members of this class think they belong the upper class. Typically they work in schools, offices or hospitals. They are pretty well educated, as they have graduated from highschool and possibly college or even university. Yet they are dependent on other people whom they sell their working power. Moreover, they are not top-leaders, but they work in the middle managment at most. This does not apply to the people who run their own small businesses, of course. You can further distinguish between lower and upper middle class. The differences are rooted in education, salary and the places they live: small apartments or houses.

• Upper class. This being the top of society, people from the upper class have no aspirations to a social rise or illusions of being superior than they actually are; at most they desire to be permitted to consider themselves a part of the international élite. Even though "working class" usually is a euphemistic term to describe the lower class, even this elevated class is usually working (or else it would be anti-social and lose the right to regard itself as a true member of society), but its activities are of intellectual, visionary, top-managment, representative or artistic kind. Their preferred places of dwelling are large apartments in the center or huge villas in the outskirts of cities. Sometimes these are also identical with their working places, but usually you will be able to find them in large office buildings, universities or parliaments. As for their education, it is obvious that the majority of them graduated from university. Also, it is likely that their collections of books are larger than the archives of small public libraries.

Maestro Monteverdi of The Afghanistan Posse

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