when was the class system removed?

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(watching titanic) women and children first then the richest!
this was less than 100 years ago. what (thankfully) wiped it out?
 
erm you can still buy a more expensive ticket for a plane, train, cruise line and go sit in business class/first class etc...

AFAIK more people from 3rd class perished on the titanic because their accommodation was further away from the higher decks where the lifeboats were

also a larger % of British men died compared to Americans due, apparently, to being polite/British etc.. and letting others through to the lifeboats first
 
dowie said:
erm you can still buy a more expensive ticket for a plane, train, cruise line and go sit in business class/first class etc...

AFAIK more people from 3rd class perished on the titanic because their accommodation was further away from the higher decks where the lifeboats were

also a larger % of British men died compared to Americans due, apparently, to being polite/British etc.. and letting others through to the lifeboats first
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Most people died to to poor design and shoddy construction.
 
Viper² said:
There is still a class structure but it isn't really based on wealth anymore.
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Agree that we still have a class structure but AFAIK it never was based on wealth. There have been plenty of aristocrats who have ended up with massive debts, and plenty of lower class people who struck it rich. During the industrial revolution a lot of rich mill owners married into aristocratic families trading their wealth for social status.

Imo Thatcher changed things the most, she really hated the old boys club (for obvious reasons) that dominated Westminster and the City at the time. To her credit she changed that to be much more meritocratic. On the negative side she also destroyed the working classes, probably unintentionally but by doing so she created the current underclass.

These days the three main classes are:

Upper-middle class i.e. your parents sent you to an independent school
Middle class i.e. your parents work and got you into a decent state school
Underclass i.e. your parents are on benefits and didn't care which school you went to
 
It seems a shame, in the past it seems people who were working class were proud of it. It wasnt seen as an insult to be working class - you did an important job and you were proud of who you were.
 
There's nothing for the working class to make anymore though Fox :( all our industry has been outsourced :(

Now it's mainly a damn service economy, we'd be absolutely ****** if we needed to rapidly institute a new manufacturing program :(
 
I would say the class system only exists if you still believe in it.

But then... I know people will come back and say "but what about this"... so can the OP explain what his definition of CLASS is!?
 
I would say that easy credit had a lot to do with it, up until recently most of the population were living well beyond their means through borrowing.
 
simpletom said:
How are people not equal?
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Because they arn't all capable of the same things :confused:


An Olympic sprinter is an excellent sprinter but probably wouldn't be a good theoretical physicist, just the Stephen hawking is never going to be a fire-fighter.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Most people died to to poor design and shoddy construction.
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Shoddy construction of what? The boat? Ok, you design something that can ram into a large iceburg using 1920s technology that doesn't sink. There certainly wasn't anything shoddy about the construction of the boat, it was designed to be the most opulent ship afloat.

The ship was designed with more than enough capacity for lifeboats, it was just decided not to put them on because it made the ship look ugly.

If you bothered to do a little research you would probably have found that out.:rolleyes:
 
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