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"The United States Is a Classless Society"

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Every society that has been measured is stratified, and an open class system produces layers as reliably as a closed one; permitting movement between layers is not the absence of layers.

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Wealth, schooling, health, and lifespan all sort by position in societies that describe themselves as classless.

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The belief survives because class is rarely named aloud, not because it stopped operating.