If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population. Herbert Marcuse
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The quote is about the problems of inequality and how it can be overcome. It was written by C. Wright Mills, a sociologist who believed that the world was becoming more and more split up into classes, and that these classes were separated by stark differences of wealth and privilege. He also believed that people thought that these differences would disappear or in some way shrink in the future, but that in fact, this would not happen.

Source: Onedimensional Man: Studies In The Ideology Of Advanced Industrial Society

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