Why The Poor Are Getting Richer And The Rich Poorer Essay

Money on my Mind

A Critical Opinion by Robert B. Reich on Why The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer

There are many rich and poor people in the world today, in our own country and in others. We have classified by how much they can afford and they are put into a class system. It’s hard for everyone in a country to be equal in the sense of how much money they make. Adriana Delgado says, “The vast differences between the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless, will be the catalyst for the best intentions to be rewarded with ungratefulness and contempt, creating resentment and mistrust between the classes.” there is always going to be problems between the rich and poor, because one sometimes is held higher than the

There will always be a split in society and how people are making more money than others. People in the world have different interest which makes them want different jobs, each job in the world pays differently which puts people in different classes based on that image. Or other people didn 't follow through with their education which will many their income of money suffer in whichever job they find. People who have a better education usually are the ones that make the better money and stay in the richer category. Christopher Jencks says, “The economic gap between rich and poor has grown dramatically in the United States over the past generation and is now considerably wider than in any other affluent nation.” Jencks is right about how the gap is growing in America of rich and poor. More people are not doing anything about it or are just not able to, so the gap is continuing to grow. There will not be a time where there will be no gap, I think that gap is inevitable to prevent. There is just people out there that don 't care about being poor and others that can 't help not