Social Mobility

I've been reading a book by Malcolm Gladwell (the same guy who wrote blink and the tipping point) called Outliers the story of success. And More or less Gladwell looks sociologically at society and uses various theories and experiments to show the odd ways and reasons (usually relating to class) on how people got around in life. Ultimately, to no one's surprise, Gladwell sees the rich succeed in every category as the poor squander good fortune time and time again. Our system, as unfair as it is, seems to have real functional reasons behind the way it works. Its unfortunate that people have to still be enslaved to such a classist society in this day and age.