Wealth & Social Class

The class system of America isn't fair. Playing Monopoly today in Soc we used a different set of rules. At the beginning of the game, each person rolled a set of dice to determine which class they would be, similar to the randomness when you're born into a class. I rolled into the highest class, old money, and started the game off with the most money and the most properties. As the game went on, I could tell I had a substantial advantage over everyone else because I could buy everything I landed on and was collecting money before anyone had gotten a property. Is the "real world" really like this? It's tough to tell because we don't live in the uber wealthy, but in our upper-middle class society, everyone is on a pretty even playing field and it's tough to see who's wealthy. While playing I observed that it was very hard for the players in the lowest classes to do much of anything besides lose money. Is our society really structured like this? Is it at all fair for it to be easy for the richer to get richer and the poor to get poorer? In the Land of Opportunity, it seems nearly impossible to start from the bottom and really make your way up to the upper classes of society.