social position achieved solely based on personal ability and achievement

Low social caste in Hindu culture; performed tasks that were considered polluting- street sweeping, removal of human waste, and tanning

with gender inequality, racism, caste systems etc - you can't work your up from male to female or one caste to another, whereas the score allowed people to work

You couldn't work the systems (slavery, gender bias, caste systems), but you could take the system down

because if you have a good score you have more choice - it is no longer about money

Africans were judged to be low and unworthy of same rights as whites. There was no way out

The movement of an individual up the class hierarchy. Achieved through education, marriage, career, or financial success

because they believed a failure of technology lead to an increase of poverty

The society becomes unstable - meeting of failing wages, rising unemployment vs a bunch of really, really rich people

kicking Deon out of their score gang, Imani felt what she said was untrue and offensive

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

Hindu and Indian, Japanese, baekjeong in Korea, kahunas of Hawaii