I think the core issue with society is that we aren't allowed to choose who we want to be. If you're parents are rich, you'll be pressured to continue their lifestyle. If you're parents are poor, you'll be held up as an example if you escape, but otherwise the world won't care about you at all or help you succeed. We try and justify this system by saying that the rich are smart and eloquent while the poor are stupid and ugly, but then you take a really good look at the rich people in our world and realize that there are a lot of people who are a lot poorer than them who are much nicer, more polite, and have more things to say. When it's so obvious to anyone with eyeballs that wealth doesn't make people better and poverty doesn't mean that you're a bad person, is anyone surprised when society is filled to the brim with stupidity?