class structure

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“Making sense of the beer business can be like understanding American class structure: There are fewer people at the top than at the bottom,” he writes.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

In cities throughout the empire, a hierarchical class structure prevailed, with the educated priestly class on top, followed by those who served in the military, agriculturalists, artisans, and finally enslaved people.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

For his second Palme d’Or-winning satire, Ruben Ostlund follows up the art-world raspberry “The Square” with a savage, at-times stomach-turning comedy about the ultrawealthy that morphs into a wild upending of class structure.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

I can do without a housemaid and the class structure she represents, but imagine living in a world where doctors made house calls!

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022

There was a self-imposed class structure between the "bugs", those who worked in the subterranean chambers and the "air-heads" who worked where the daylight shone.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn