A little over 60 years ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly with you. But over the years I’ve come to see that the world still functions as sort of a Downton Abbey cast system. There are, figuratively speaking, the manor born upstairs and the lessor ones down stairs. Sure, once in a million the chauffeur marries an upstairs princes.

My grandmother born in 1888 (the wife of a rich man’s handyman)not so subtly tried to point out to me this social pecking order when I became enraptured with a smashingly enchanting upstairs princes of my own.

I brushed nana off as being silly and old fashion. I mean, lady, this is the 20th century that stuff went out with high button shores.

Not so!

There always has been and always will be a genetic based social order. Every once in a while one falls out of the superior class or one rises up to the superior class. These genetic exchanges are not exceedingly rare, but hardly routine occurrences. That, my friend, is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Perhaps what you are referring to is mostly minor differences in wealth and personality.