Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170729213650/@comment-5080468-20170730094946

Correct. This is also to prevent workers from paying money and giving it to upper-class families in order to arrange marriages, which would then lead to social rise. This bylaw effectively prohibits marriage between academic middle-class and working lower-class families to enforce the rigid class separation and stratification that is crucial to the Medwedian system.

There are many laws designed specifically to suppress social mobility. People without higher education may not employ more than 10 workers, for example, preventing the formation of enriching private enterprises. In most cases, they are not even allowed to create their own firms; usually, only those who have a formal vocational education (bakers, butchers, plumbers, electricians) are allowed to. The workers are not. Differentiation between unskilled workers and professional tradespeople must be made!