it is exactly my point that social class analysis is not applicable to the current conditions, to some large extent...

There is tremendous consolidation among global corporations. Look at their boards. The vast majority are Ivy League-educated and/or come from generational wealth.

Same schools, same boards, same vacation spots, same parties, etc. Same ideas about how the world works. The class delineation is quite clear. Yes, there is a lot of variation and rising "counter-elites", but why exactly should we ignore the elephant in the room?

here in the USA, long and durable actions were taken to break apart class lines, into competitive sub-situations.. and many steps. Since I know only the USA, I said some "overly general and under-informed" things like this about class dynamics, to a colleague from Japan. I got hours of lecture as a response.. some of the same in England too, post WWII.

A giant driver for the massive deconstruction of class privelage was exactly an unrelenting obsession by bystanders, to claim that any and all adverse results are due to "the elite decided this" .. so -- to be on the Board of any of those companies is generally speaking an end-result of 25 solid years of competitive situations, where some people "win" .. the Board directors are MORE exploitive and aggressive precisely because they will be replaced with others that will do it. I utterly disagree that there is some insider track in the USA that results from where you went to kindergarten or who you spend vacations with..