exponential results
exponential results
White men from good families having even the tiniest overall societal advantage is sufficient that they dominate the upper end of the class system where the tiniest advantage can win the game. (That inherent instability is the only reason all power isn't entirely entrenched, but to the extent it is entrenched it's because they get to write the rules.) Modern society sees this demographic discrepancy as representative of the state of society as a whole, but for ordinary people those advantages are lost in a sea of resource conflicts and lesser evil choices (ie compromise).