high class > low class? where do you stand?

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watching the video "People Like Us" shows me just how ignorant some people are to the class system in America. its true. we don't like to believe that this class system exists...it's taboo. but its there. there to separate us and give us something like a platform on which we build ourselves on. one thing that hit me was how they said that the choices we make can reveal a lot about the type of class we want to portray ourselves as being part of.  in my experience, i loved looking at the fancy houses. i loved dreaming about having a big house, with a beautiful kitchen and living room, and a lavish bedroom. so according to that previously mentioned statement it reveals that i wanted to evoke the high class status. but think about it, is the "grass greener on the other side"? i know now that the more people have, the less secure you feel. you have more, you can lose more. its this insane amount of greed that makes us want more, never satisfied. i mean, do you really need that louis vuitton bag? do i really need a lavish home in order to be happy? and we pretend that this sort of class system doesn't exist. i liked the statement that its a lot like high school. how there are the different cliques. in reality, those cliques portray different classes. you have the preppy, jocks, academic people = high class. then you have the rejects = low class. the part about the Belles, i was dying with laughter with how the coach spoke about the Belles. how they weren't a clique, but a family "as long as i know the truth, i don't really care what the other people say". that's a very egotistical POV because she's already "at the top"... of course she doesn't care about what other people think.

in addition, reading the article "Cause of Death: Inequality" is really depressing. it basically talks about the connection between the type/amount of education a person has and the likely hood that this person would suffer from some sort of disease. the less education you have, the more likely you're going to die of health problems. and it is well known that not all classes have the same sort of education. the higher class you are, the better education you are able to afford, and the same is true for the opposite. the lower class you are, the lesser education you have. and not even talking about higher education, but starting from as low as pre school. this amount of inequality is disgusting. and its sad because we still have that mentality that, you earn whatever it is you get. so does this mean that if i'm in a lower class, i deserve to have less? it doesn't mean that i'm any less hardworking than say Donald Trump or Bill Gates. i just wasn't born into the "right class".