Samurai aren't really a thing anymore. Not sure when that happened. [For that matter, neither are nobility or peasants, by and large, but Shinji's really not prepared to try to explain democracy.

Or why Japan doesn't have a military, for that matter.]

You get money from working, or sometimes from inheriting it. In theory, anyone can work their way up. In practice, it's easier if you're rich and have a penis. Why anyone assumes women can't handle shit, I have no fucking idea. There are people who think working means crime, that's probably never gonna stop happening.

In theory, no one's getting away with murder, either. But in practice it's easier for rich people to buy their way outta trouble. Class shit got a lot more subtle.