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The big castes – from the supposedly Frankish Nobles of the Sword and Nobles of the Robe to proto-bourgeois merchants and Gallo-Roman villeins – all conferred upon their members small liberties and a measure of personal autonomy in exchange for obligations to the state.

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And in some countries, like India, the lower castes are condemned to empty the pits, and they're further condemned by society.

We need to stop the practice of lower castes and lower-status people going down and being condemned to empty pits.

Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes, with the rich being upgraded into virtual gods, and the poor being degraded to this level of useless people.

By the mid-20th century, the original four castes associated with specific occupations had been divided into some 3000 sub-castes.

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