Hmm, I have has this discussion quite a few times whilst playing, looking from a socialogical sense your right, for an example you could see the new, less experiance players as the Proleteriat and the higher ranked players as the Borgouise, as there are some higher rank players that will not associate with lower rank players. It is the same in a money/TC sence, the "lower class" would be the poor player where the "ruling class" would be the Rich. it is a Patriarchal Game in a sence as i see more male player/GM's etc than female, I think any community with boundries will develop these so called "politics"
ill edit this later, im tired, sorry for mistakes or if i swayed from the point a bit etc
but i look forward to this discussion
b3st