Concept. Balibar E. and I. Wallerstein. From the book "Race, nation, class.Ambiguous identity." (№ 216549)

Capital considers the human being not as a living being but as a commodity-a currency that equalizes all of humanity. But at the same time the capitalist system is one of the least stable, as in the capitalist world, privileges are earned mostly by their own labor, and to assimilate the idea that the privilege of someone earned because that person might be, smarter and, at least, more educated than another, much harder, but only if you don't belong to those few who are in principle able to climb up the career ladder.