In class we have covered the fact that land ownership has a direct correlation to wealth. I began to think if any other factors so directly impacts a social status. Maybe not so directly, but a good education can help push people into the direction of perhaps owning a lot of land.
A good education can help people also in social status because it does a couple of things, 1 if your education allows you to meet other people with the same or greater degree, than you can make strong connections helping you in getting ahead in the world. the 2nd reason is because it allows multiple options for your career. By having a greater career choice your options for attaining a more power prominent job that you actually enjoy are a little higher.
Other that education, some things that directly relate to wealth we cannot control. Your family name and the amount of respect already placed upon you are huge impacts into your position in the world. Though in class today we learned about people from England who came over were granted land per head they brought. Someone with a lesser class could move up the ranks to a class with great wealth. This is essentially the american dream and how people wish to live their lives today, moving up that social economic latter.
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