Caste systems are cruel because they approximate moral hierarchy without optimizing for it. Class systems are cruel because they create hierarchy without a moral element: a caste system is a boot on the face forever, but economic class systems are regressive without a fixed floor
Mostly I am just meditating on how the rationalizations of class disparity have gone from beautiful religious justifications to incoherent screeching. I don't think it's because they needed stronger justifications in the past, I think it's because people in the present are worse
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