Class Action defines Classism as “differential treatment based on social class or perceived social class. Classism is the systematic oppression of subordinated class groups to advantage and strengthen the dominant class groups. It’s the systematic assignment of characteristics of worth and ability based on social class.” Systematic classism can manifest in policies that favor upper classes over lower classes, which furthers the wealth gap between upper and lower classes and makes mobility between classes less possible. Classism can also be internalized by lower classes, leading to feelings of shame over a person’s heritage/family line, blaming a person’s own socioeconomic status on themselves instead of inherited wealth and systematic classism, and feeling inferior to those of a higher class. People of lower classes have just as much value as people of higher classes. Socioeconomic status does not determine a person’s worth, and systematic classism perpetuates these myths.