Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Blamed

When it comes to the economy, nobody knows what is going to happen. Many people can estimate what will happen in the near future, but nobody is certain for sure. It’s a game really, you either win big or lose big. So if a person is rich and then becomes poor he probably did a mistake and lost all of his fortune, which makes him to blame for his poverty. While in the other hand another investor won big and got richer. It was because of his doing that he got richer. In “Rip, the Middle Class: 1946-2013”, McClelland exemplifies what has been going on in the middle class. And that the government is to blame for its disappearance. The middle class doesn’t exist anymore because the government did not intervene in any way, making the rich richer and the poor, poorer.

“From Nickle and Dimed”, Barbara Ehrenreich illustrates a story about a maid’s life while working for others. Speaking about her co-workers and friends. How they make too little to actually earn a living. Arguing that a person can’t live a good life with the money she earns and that it is not her fault that she can’t get out of poverty, when the rich pay her so little.

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