rich getting richer
In the article, “Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer” Robert Reich uses examples of rising and falling boats to explain the difference between the rich and the poor, one sinking rapidly, one sinking more slowly, and the third rising steadily.
The boat sinking rapidly contains routine producers “production workers”. They are being replaced with immigrants for lower pay if not being outsourced to 3rd world countries
The second boat that is sinking slowly held in-person servers, “minimum wage workers” such as cashiers, bank tellers, and telephone operator which are being replaced with robots and other automated machines.
The third boat that is rising contains the symbolic analysts “America’s smart people”, scientist, artists, politicians, est. (But I don’t know why) “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich is a good example of the rich getting richer. She takes a low-wage, very demanding, degrading house cleaning job with strict rules such as no drinking, eating or gum chewing in the house or cursing even if the owner wasn’t present. The job gets more difficult, both physically and mentally, as the days go by. The schedule makes it difficult for anyone to even get a 30 minute lunch break, so it is usually a bag of potato chips from the local convenience store. All while the company makes $25 an hour per person and the workers only get $6.65 per hour.
The middle and lower classes of workers are now working harder for less money, while the upper classes money is actually growing exponentially. In the last decade since the dot com collapse, 65 percent of economic growth was experienced solely by the top one percent richest people in the country. As recently as 2012, that percentage grew to a surprising 93 percent. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/concentrated-wealth-is-a-long-term-threat-to-america/2012/03/27/gIQAMJt1eS_print.html All these factors play a part in the economic gap in our country it is increasingly more
The boat sinking rapidly contains routine producers “production workers”. They are being replaced with immigrants for lower pay if not being outsourced to 3rd world countries
The second boat that is sinking slowly held in-person servers, “minimum wage workers” such as cashiers, bank tellers, and telephone operator which are being replaced with robots and other automated machines.
The third boat that is rising contains the symbolic analysts “America’s smart people”, scientist, artists, politicians, est. (But I don’t know why) “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich is a good example of the rich getting richer. She takes a low-wage, very demanding, degrading house cleaning job with strict rules such as no drinking, eating or gum chewing in the house or cursing even if the owner wasn’t present. The job gets more difficult, both physically and mentally, as the days go by. The schedule makes it difficult for anyone to even get a 30 minute lunch break, so it is usually a bag of potato chips from the local convenience store. All while the company makes $25 an hour per person and the workers only get $6.65 per hour.
The middle and lower classes of workers are now working harder for less money, while the upper classes money is actually growing exponentially. In the last decade since the dot com collapse, 65 percent of economic growth was experienced solely by the top one percent richest people in the country. As recently as 2012, that percentage grew to a surprising 93 percent. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/concentrated-wealth-is-a-long-term-threat-to-america/2012/03/27/gIQAMJt1eS_print.html All these factors play a part in the economic gap in our country it is increasingly more