Without a doubt. It is sad but people with money run the world.

Could happen again.

of course, its still happening everyday! if ones richer, he gets a car with 5 airbags, versus a cheap car with 0 airbag! thus those driving 1st class cars brought also the added safety. as same for pc, if one paid more for virus software, he gets the protection those who didnt pay for it, dont get. people in africa get free medical care from medicine sans frontier, but those who live in normal civilised countries, doing a standard blue-collars job, might not even be able to pay the doctor's bills, and die because... 'of low status?' well, at least in a sense that it isnt high enough in term of the paycheque to even afford the necessary medical care! the laws may be equal to everyone, but when it comes to who gets what, its still a you-get-what-you-paid-for world!

There are tragedies happening every day where people die because of their lower status. A lot more than on the Titanic.

How about health care in America, or health care in the Third World for that matter, not only could it happen, It does happen, it happens every hour of every day.

Yes and no. If you are asking whether the rich will gain protection which is no afforded to the poor, then yes indeedy, it happens on a daily basis. But if you are asking whether a ship could go to sea with insufficient lifeboats, then I think the answer would be no - we are too bound up in health and safety issues that never again can we set board on a ship unless wearing protective headgear and a hi-visibility vest, and there are signs everywhere pointing to every possible hazard. My goodness, you can't even smoke a cigarette while filling your car up with fuel any more! All that health and safety is probably not a bad thing though - we will never again see young couples of mixed class standing on the front of a ship trying to fly - that was so dangerous!

yes, they just have to do it in a new less obvious method... just like slavery was abolished, however the blue collar is a state of economic slavery, you must work 60, 80 + hours per week and are still not guarenteed enough money to afford rent/mortgage, food and utilities. hell, I even had to quit a 16/hour job because my wife's medical destroyed us financially making us move to a different town so we could live with her parrents and continues to do so.

It didn't even happen then. While there was a much higher death rate for 3rd class passengers than for 1st & 2nd class passengers on the Titanic, the cause had NOTHING to do with them being kept below or being denied seats on the lifeboats. They weren't. 1. They weren't kept below. Yes, there were "locked gates" on the stairwells leading up through the 1st class decks to the boat deck, but these gates were only 28 inches high, and were easily stepped over. They were basically no different then velvet cordons. 2. Over 85% of the 3rd class passengers were Scandinavian, and spoke no English. 100% of stewards and crew were British, and spoke no Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish. 3. When the 3rd class passengers were told to get up on deck, they naturally went to the 3rd class deck on the sterncastle, far aft of the lifeboat stations, despite efforst of stewards to guide them up the main stairs to the boat decks. 4. When the officers sent stewards and crewmen aft to get the 3rd class women and children up to the boat deck, the non-English speaking steerage passengers didn't understand, and being Central European peasants, there were social taboos and natural fears of sending off women and children unprotected in the company of strange men. The result was that almost all of the non-English speaking 3rd Class women and children refused to move up to the boatdecks, despite the efforts of the crew. Be that as it may, because of the Titanic, no ship may sail unless it has more than enough lifeboats for everyone on board. The risk (past, present, and future) is that the crew panics and leaves with the boats, leaving many of the passengers stuck on board, It happened with the Andrea Doria and more than a few other ships EXCEPT those with British, American, German, Dutch, and Norwegian crews - where discipline and the motto of "Women and children first!" still prevail.

Its is happening always. Each and everyday. The wealthier and powerful survive on the toils of the poor and the suppressed.

Sure. Given enough time, even another Holocaust will happen again. There might even be a future Hitler right now either born or about to be born.