Class Division And Inequality In The United States

Within the United States operates a class system based on economic standing, though it is rarely spoken of or thought of as an issue. The classes divide the American population into three sections. The elite and wealthy upper class that controls most of the economy and government, the middle class who is made of finically stable and well-educated people, and the staggering lower class who live under poverty line. The United States are not the only or the first to struggle with class division, the separation creates a discrimination between classes and allows the higher and more “qualified” class to exploit and rule. There has been attempts to make the playing field so to say more equal, these come from the views of people like Marx and Lenin. Class division and privilege creates injustice and inequality through the ruling of a higher class, this systems has been in power under

Within the United States there is an underlying class system, which controls the privilege of a person through their social and ethnical backgrounds. This system ranges by the following: the upper class being the in control of the majority of the nation’s wealth is the most privileged of the three, then comes the middle class which is diminishing and finally the lower class who is the least privileged and most discriminated against. “The richest twenty percent of Americans hold nearly eighty-five percent of the total household wealth in the country”. (Mantsios, 179) This fact shows that the upper class has domination over the two following classes, but more specifically the lower class. A privileged white man of