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/^t/These are clear examples of inequality. It is, however, so widespread that very often it is not considered something evil or uncommon. People got used to politicians breaking the law, to the rich evading paying taxes, as well as to the masculinization of high positions, to the absence of the disabled at universities, and to social ostracism of lesbians. Another thing is that probably every society has its elites and its underclass, that they are nothing out of ordinary. Perhaps we should accept the fact that there is injustice, consent to every community being divided into exclusive and impregnable castes. Perhaps we should agree on highly hierarchical societies existing under the banner of democracy and equality. Perhaps, as somebody once said, "democratic equality is the most efficacious instrument of spiritual selection". The alternative to such an attitude is Orwell's ridicule. We have to make a choice.