Regardless of where people fall on the social hierarchy, they like and reinforce the system. They seek camaraderie with other people in social classes - even if they're in the bottom class.

This is a difficult part of human psychology for me to deal with. For those of us who don't like this system, it can be difficult to opt-out.

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