1. If you read " Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer," you would understand that Robert Riech was declaring the elite are the only one's benefiting from this economic collapse while the poor are suffering harder. I believe it's fair to say I'm 100% behind this idea due to the fact it's pretty obvious concerning the extreme power ultra-rich people have over their helpless workers. I'm not talking rich people like doctors, lawyers, etc; I'm referring to owners of multi-millionare company's and CEO's who are morally responsible to make sure their workers are thriving. Instead of helping out fellow American's who need jobs, these corrupt business millionare owners are benefiting from cheap labor from around the globe from Mexicans to the Chinese.
On " Blue Collar Brilliance", the author Mike Rose is bringing up the subject about the relationship between schooling and intelligence. I disagree with his ideas concerning how intelligence is not correlated with schooling. First of all, he is extremely biased because he gives examples from his mother and his uncle: obviously he is gonna try to make them look good since they are related. I personally worked as a server last year and I can guarantee you, ANYONE could be a server. However, a student who went to medical school after years & years of schooling is intelligently superior to most people because not everyone can do his job.
2. I believe Riech and Rose will both agree with each other concerning the value of the "bottom" class workers. Riech will probably argue that the "bottom" class workers are just as productive and meaningful as the CEO's to the company, and Rose will further add to that idea saying "bottom" class workers shouldn't even be looked down upon because they perform respectable, hard-working jobs.
I agree with the concepts in “Why the Richer Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer” being that workers cannot succeed and move up in profit because CEO, companies, franchises and etc. continuing to look for cheaper labor and supplies. In the position of these CEO’s I understand saving money as much as possible however there is a moral responsibility to hold.
ReplyDeleteIn “Blue Collar Brilliance” Rose presents that intelligence is gained upon experience, and suggests that schooling does not strive in your success. I agree with this in part, I completely agree that you learn more through experience and will gain more success. However, I do believe that schooling sets a foundation for you to be successful. Rose uses personally experiences and observations to justify his claim in which I agre because there are many wealthy and successful people that are intelligent that have not completed school.
I disagree with your opinion on Blue Collar, as I stated above there are many people who are successful without attending school. When we use personal experience it doesn’t make us completely biased we use our illustrations to explain a universal concept. I think Rose’s examples on his mother and uncle are justifiable and with his credibility they are accurate.
1.) I agree with Reich's idea in "Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer." The idea being that the poor are getting poor because of globalization of businesses, they are losing there jobs and the rich are getting richer because the save all that money with the cheap labor they get around the world. The owners of companies don't realize how badly it affects the lower class when they choose to globalize the company.
ReplyDeleteIn "Blue Collar Brilliance" Rose explains that intelligence can not only be gained in school, but also with experience. I agree with this idea, due to his family's examples and other well known people who wildly succeeded even though they dropped out of school such as Bill Gates or Albert Einstein. On the other hand, I would point out that it is obvious that if you go to school for a long time for a certain field, you will have higher intelligence on that. (ex: medical school)
3.) I also disagree with your "Blue Collar Brilliance" paragraph, I actually agree with Jade. Like she stated a lot of people succeed with no schooling, like the examples I gave in my BCB paragraph. I don't think it biased to use personal examples, you also used a personal example when you talked about being a server, I think it makes it more relatable and believable,
I agree that the super elite of America are the only ones benefiting, while the poor are suffering in the article, “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer." CEO`s and company owners take away the opportunity for our citizens to have a job as they are being taken away by foreign citizens in another country. This is unjust and immoral due to the fact companies are looking for the max amount of profit. I understand business as I am an independent business owner, but there are many opportunities in America to make profit and still be considered economically elite. This problem plays a factor into the economy and the reason the poor are still suffering.
ReplyDeleteIn your second argument I have to disagree with your notion that anybody can be a waiter. Yes, it requires basic knowledge, but to the rich have the patience, the ability to have great customer service, or even the fact they can last in a blue collar job. Blue collar jobs require a different set of knowledge and skills that sometimes schools do not offer.
I agree with Reich's interpretation of the article " Why the Rich are getting Richer and the poor, poorer," however I cannot accept the belief that the rich have overwhelming power over the workers. It depends on what you consider rich and the few " millionares" make up a very small percentage of american workers and I think that makes the argument invalid. Reich can't simply stereotype a class of individuals that make up such a small portion of the population. In " Blue Collar Brilliance" I agree that intelligence isn't just gained in school, but experience. I agree with this because nothing prepares for the real deal besides the real deal itself. Obviously, school is very important and plays a pivotal role in the development of experience. For example, if you put a civilian in a warzone they would have no clue what to do, however a trained soldier would be able to use his training to help him. The two almost go hand in hand and you require both to be successful in a field.
ReplyDelete3.) I agree with Fernando and that Reich and Rose will agree, because unlike Jade, Fernando used quotes to support his argument. Reich's article has to do with supporting the workers of companies and Rose's article has to do with respecting all jobs which is where I draw the conclusion that the two author's would agree with each other.
1. In the article "The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer", the main goal that I pulled from reading was the successful attempt at tracing the cause of today's economic gap between the rich and the poor. Mostly, the cause is explained as the combination of outsourcing and the development of technology. I agree with both of these things. First that there exists a massive economic gap, and second the causes of said gap. I've taken a lot of social and economy classes, and what I've learned is that a great many people, large businesses especially, are always looking for ways to decrease the cost of what they do in order to make more money. They do this by, as the article says, taking advantage of technology and cheap foreign labor.
ReplyDelete2. I think Reich would agree with Rose on his ideas, but with a few differences. It is not hard to see that what they focus on are actually quite different. Reich focuses on the cause of the economic gap, while Rose focuses on the injustice of wage to work ratios specifically for minimum wage workers and how lower wages wrongfully mean less intelligence. Now there doesn't seem to be an immediate connection, but there is in the fact that they both acknowledge the fact that lower class people don't really get what they deserve. I think they would both agree that there is more intelligence to many lower wage jobs and that they should get more for their work so that they can live easier and level the economic playing field.
1.In his article “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer," Robert Riech expresses the reason why rich people are getting richer while poor people are getting poorer at the same time in the US. I agree that the way our economic system runs will benefit people who are rich already more than it does to poor people. Because most people who are poor are being consumed by business owners and it is hard for them to get out of this cycle. On the other hand though, rich people can keep what they own easily and can even earn more if they want.
ReplyDeleteMike Rose is right in his article "Blue Collar Brilliance" that people do get intelligence throughout their working experience, but she seems on more dubious ground when she claims that intelligence is not correlated with schooling. I would argue, like some of other people, that if you can stay in school for a certain type of work, you do get intelligently better than people who get experience only from work.
2.Like I said above, although I disagree with much you says, I fully endorse your final conclusion that “a student who went to medical school after years & years of schooling is intelligently superior to most people because not everyone can do his job.”
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ReplyDeleteI agree with the ideas in “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer". I believe that multi million dollar companies and individuals have a moral obligation to their employees, no matter how small their role in the company. Individual’s and large company’s success depends on their integrity and if it is known the small jobs are not treated with the respect, meaning how well they are paid and how they are treated in the word force, they are going to be less successful.
ReplyDeleteI somewhat agree with “Blue Collar Brilliance” and Rose’s idea of learning on experience. I believe one can be very successful without obtaining higher levels of education; however, attending school gives people access to information and information is the most important thing a person can have. A majority of people who attend college are more successful in their career field. There are very few extremely successful people everyone is aware of, Steve Jobs for example, who did not attend college
While I do agree with your first idea on “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer", I do not agree with you on the second article “Blue Collar Brilliance” because I think people are in whole more successful in their life after attending college.
I completely agree with what you’re saying about “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and Poor, Poorer” because while I believe that doctors and lawyers deserve the pay the get and it’s equally fair, I don’t think that CEO’s should be getting as much pay as they do. They use loop holes and tricks to make more money, and to pay their workers less and less. The workers are the ones who are making the money for these CEOs, and I believe they deserve a more equal pay. Instead of taking away jobs from United States citizens, they should be required to allow those workers to keep their jobs. The poor tend to have more hands-on hard labor jobs, and their pay should be increasing not decreasing. On the other hand, when you’re talking about “Blue Collar Brilliance”, I completely disagree with you when you state that ANYONE could be a server. There are plently of people that are too incompetent to handle the fast paced job that servers work in. In most restaurants, you need some type of experience in a restaurant to become a server. For example, at Saltlick you have to have been a cashier there for at least 1 ½ years before they even consider to let you change your position to a server because the job does take a lot more intelligence than what it may seem like. Rose is not writing this story to make his mother and uncle look good; he uses them as examples because he saw how much hard work and effort that they put into their jobs. His close relationship with them helped to show how strongly he felt about his argument. I doubt he would put them in his story just to make them look good since they are related.
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