Social Classes

Past, present, future, will the financially less fortunate always be treated the same? Social classes are a common theme in many literary works because they impact the world in such a large way. Many authors use literature to express their opinions on world issues without causing a scene, money being a large and common topic that shows up within writing. Reading about the differences within the social classes and how differently they are treated only adds fire to the fuel of letting the wealthy run the world. The difference between social classes continues to impact the world, with the wealthy being given special treatment, holding power over the poor and playing by different rules the gap is becoming larger and larger.
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Harming the community feel in cities because of the obvious difference in the social classes. A person should be judged based on personality, not their paycheck. However, it seems as though more and more in the world we care less about how is person is a friend and more what their bank account looks like. In the TEDTalk, “Does Money Make You Mean?” by Paul Piff, he casted an experiment of college kids, he had them play a rigged game of monopoly. During this game the factor of the amount of money played a large role in their tone of actions during the game. Piff also casted an experiment where he had someone stand at a crosswalk on different days and took a poll on if the cost of the car (wealthy people) played a role in how they drove. During this experiment 64% of the more expensive cars did not stop for the pedestrian, while the poorer cars had an 83% rate of the ones that did stop. This helps to show even more so that people with money seems to believe they hold power of the poor, they believe they have different rules. The financially less fortunate in 2013 people making between $15,000-$28,000 donated 44% more money to charity than the people that make $60,000, who have money to donate. Money changes people, and it is not always for the