7/01/2004

Things to think about while sitting in traffic #1

I wonder what society would be like if everyone made the exact same amount of money - no more, no less - regardless of job title.

Would social class and status completely melt away? Would race become the primary culural delineation again, as it was before the civil rights movement? Or would one's religion replace a rolex as a way of signifying which side of the proverbial tracks one is from?

I mean, understandably, making sense of the world around each of us and how we're supposed to fit into it is best learned when we can establish frames of reference... if you take away class status, will society simply replace one frame of reference (what defines this person? where do they come from? what is their life like?) for another?

So, if everyone made, say, a million dollars a year regardless of job title, education or family name, what would the new frame of reference be?

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