With the decline of the 20th century, class conflict translates less and less into grievances, wage struggles, and social mobility. Inequality takes new forms. New barriers are erected; not only those that contrast with migration, but even before that, those that refer to economic and social relations, access to politics, higher education and life in the metropolis, where entire districts are redesigned, assets are centralized ultra-luxury real estate and extreme wealth is barely used in productive investments. In exclusionary processes, those relating to high-value goods are also decisive, as occurred in the centuries of pre-industrial modernity. The new messages regarding luxury are less and less a stimulus for widespread consumerism. In that apparent continuum in which during the post-war decades the variety of signs was ordered but the differences were diluted, we now see the opening of a also semiotic mutation, in which, however, not only is a new discontinuity indicated between the "super-class" and the majority excluded, but in a certain way it is founded and deepened.