Equality?

America is known for it's freedom, right? Equality for all? Sound familiar? Ha! that's funny. We all know that equality is much more complicated than that.

The truth is that America operates on a social class system probably as much as other countries. We've all heard the terms "upper class" and "lower class." What does that mean? Are there some people that are better than others? What is "upper class" and how does one obtain it? Is it, necessarily, a terrible thing to be "lower class?"

"Upper class" is not just about the money. Although that is a large part of it. The truth is to really be at the tip-top of the class scale you have to be born into privilege. From the time of birth you have people wait on you and you get used to having the best of the best and being the best. It's true that people climb the social ladder but they can only go so far within a lifetime. It is much more likely that the children of the people that work hard to climb that ladder will be considered "upper class." Apparently, it's not something you can fake.

We all seem to want to be more "upper class" than we are, but is it really all it's cracked up to be? Considering family life it's not. It's true that parents in "upper class" situations are able to provide for their children and help them to have the best education possible but something that an "upper class" family usually lacks is time together. Wealthy families are very busy and tend to hire out things like nannies or cleaning people. The problem is that the nannies and the cleaning people are with the children more often than their own parents and usually bond with them more and feel more neglected by their parents. It's true that this doesn't ALWAYS happen, but the majority of the time it does.

Moral of lesson: Don't worry so much to be "upper class," it's not worth it.