In fact, in a general sense, the bottom of the old society cannot be broken through, not because the upper class does not allow it, but not only all the resources are in the upper layer, but the upper class is still trying to squeeze the bottom layer in every possible way when it occupies the vast majority of resources. Most of the bottom floors don't have any resources, and all their time and energy can only be used to make ends meet. A child from a poor family, he receives very few educational resources, he learns a lot of things or even wrong, the low cognition and hard work of parents often lead to a variety of original family problems, a low cognition, psychological incompleteness and no ability and resources of the person will undoubtedly be firmly locked at the bottom. This is not only a huge gap in the starting point of material resources, but also cognitively and psychologically far from the same starting point. For example, if you have been learning dumb English for more than ten years, and people have been studying abroad since elementary school, what is the comparison between the two?
There are always individual cases, and the vigorous publicity of these individual cases is undoubtedly the best means to cover up the universal facts, so all kinds of courses that teach you success and inspirational stories of counterattacks are very loud, and you start all kinds of cultivation, fantasizing that one day you can turn over with salted fish, just like Lao She's camel Xiangzi, full of confidence that you can change your fate through your own efforts. And in the end, you will find that those who say they are self-made are often not self-made, at least compared to you, far from being self-made. Those who pretend to teach you success are just trying to cut your leeks.
In Western society and the old Chinese society, the only way out for the bottom is violence, so the bottom of the society often goes dark, because only at the level of violence will people return to the same starting point, and the bottom of the population, which accounts for the majority of the population, has a little advantage. It is not possible for a group of peasants to be as rich as the landlords, but they can after they are left behind. It's not that the bottom wants to commit crimes, it's that it's the only thing they can get their hands on. Therefore, in a society where class differentiation is more severe and the lower the poverty is at the bottom, social violence is more prevalent. Therefore, a stable society must have a buffer zone, which is the middle class, and the larger the middle class, the more stable the society will be. That's why we want to eradicate poverty and achieve common prosperity in the first place.