Sometimes I try to extrapolate out current conditions. I always end up with heavily policed cities for the protected class, ghetto suburbs and rural areas for the ones who didn't choose the right parents. We seem determined to build a caste system and in the US the Untouchables will be the ones who were born without professional parents. Every five years or so there will be a Hillbilly Elegy to remind the poor that it's all their fault.

This presumes that no trauma intervenes in between. Historically, war, famine, plague and ecological disasters have done pretty well at reducing inequality.