Except back then you couldn't actually move up. Most people today can save and generate wealth from leveraged capital today. That's literally every startup.
Would you prefer I replace “only difference” with “similarity” or “analogy”? So then I can just say metaphors compare dissimilar things that share at least one common attribute. The point itself would be the exact same and also skirt right by the most pedantic rebuttals.
The peasants were aware of their place in society, the non-capital class has cognitive dissonance their whole lives.
