So basically what I gathered from the video is that most Americans think that the wealth in America
SHOULD be divided somewhat equally among classes, leaving the poor with a chance of climbing to the
middle class, leaving the middle class with a fighting chance of climbing to the wealthy class. That’s common
sense. That’s elementary idea at best. Even a child, if taught, would think about sharing his apples with
someone who had non. What Americans thought the class share was is still better then it is. They thought it
was perhaps a bit unfairly divided, but they overestimated how unfairly. Its pretty scary to imagine not only
is this our future, but this is the way it is right now. To thing that we came from other countries just decades
ago, migrating for the ’American dream’. A chance for our families, a fighting chance for freedom, to come
up from oppression and become wealthy. Moving into bad neighbor hoods and homes that smelled to give
our kids a better life. We still do that. People from all backgrounds, families, teachers neighbors, schools,
children, and poor minority all suffering from the unequal wealth distribution in the united states. The land of
the free. We enslaved people in the past, and even now don’t acknowledge native American culture, so
why should we think everyone should be free and equal if they cant afford it. Who is the 1%? Satan? CEOs
and private corporations? People working there butts off by waking up at 5 or 7 in the morning, eating a
steak breakfast, nearly smudging there 200$ ties. What a hardship it must be for them to decide how much
of there own hard earned god given, hardly taxed dollars they put into stocks, and investments. It must be
pretty risky to invest a million dollars into a new house and not have to pay taxes for the businesses you own.
But seriously, what has happened to this beautiful country? Greed? Monopolization's? Consumerism?
Capitalism? The top 1% Americas population practically own 50% of the nations wealth. That really makes
me sad. I’m sure our government is not apart of the 1%. Not like if they were, rich government officials
would distribute it to those who need it most in our country. This really, genuinely makes me sad. Right now
I’m having a hard time finding a job as it is. If I wasn't in college, I wouldn't be anywhere. In all honesty, I
always felt whichever job or career I chose as a child, id have a hard time just making a living a san adult.
Forget about making it big, being able to waste a few bucks on the latest pair of shoes at the mall. Forget
about giving your children spending money when they go out with there friends. Forget about even having
children. There too expensive. Just to make enough to sustain your own life, is a difficult task in this day and
age for the poor, at least. When I saw how much you needed to make a year in order to ‘make a living’, I
was shocked to say the least. Never in my life could I imagine spending hard earned cash on foolish things
like handbags, instead of toilet paper. In Economics, we had to spend some money on leisure time. But r
realistically, since the you probably cant pay your rent with a part time 8.50 an hour job, the 1$ movie you
rented for the night is as good as its going to get this week. A question I can think of, is was equal money
distribution in the hands of the government in the first place? Who was it that said we should live with a
capitalism government? Was that us Americans? Or was the rich?
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