One social class does not owe anything to another, and we should not feel guilty about pursuing financial interests.

一个社会阶层对另一个并没有亏欠，而且我们也不必为追求经济利益感到内疚。

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The more we look, the more we will see that social factors like gender, race, and class do not determine the appearance of genius.

我们看得越多，就越会觉得性别、种族和阶级等社会因素不会决定天才的出现。

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Not only is social class supposed not to exist in America, it is almost a dirty word—“America's forbidden thought”, in the words of one sociologist.

美国不仅不应该存在社会阶级，而且那几乎是一个肮脏的词——用一位社会学家的话来说就是“美国所禁忌的思想”。

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One social class does not owe anything to another and we should not feel guilty about pursuing financial interests.

一个社会阶层对另一个阶层并没有亏欠,而且我们也不必为追求经济利益,感到内疚

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This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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Money, which had really not featured in the British demarcation of social class, became very important.

BBC: Class calculator: A US view of the class system

"Not everyone who is coded as relatively high social class drives a luxury car, " Gore says.

CNN: Are rich people more unethical?

But with the outlook closer to the base of the social pyramid not so rosy, a growing class of superwealthy might actually exacerbate class tensions at a moment when the promise of cherry-picking Western hypercapitalism could turn more sour than ever.

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