In reading chapter two, I was most interested in the section "Hierarchies of Class". As differentiation occurred within the jobs of early communities, the gaps between the wealth. status, and power of each community member grew. Interestingly, I had never really considered that this was not always the way of a community. I had assumed, and perhaps wrongly, that there were always inequalities among peoples based on their jobs, and the income they reaped for those jobs.
Perhaps more interesting was the Code of Hammurabi, which dictated laws about violations against different classes. I had not previously thought that different classes would get different punishments for crimes, or rewarded differently for crimes perpetrated against them. I would hope that was not the case in today's society, but there are plenty of examples of the rich being over looked for some of their crimes, or being convicted differently because of their position in society.
Ultimately, I'm more surprised that we've grown to little as a culture and a society.
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