Drawing The Line Between Classes: What Makes People Rich Or Poor?

Drawing the Line between Classes Class systems have been around for ages. During the olden days people would have the job their parents had. Even if they had other dreams or aspirations they were forced to have the job their parents had. Other countries and cultures had a similar class system in which people could do whatever job they wanted as long as the job stayed in the class there parents came from. Occasionally people would do something honorable or worthy of a great reward, such as allowing themselves or their children to rise in class. This all sounds terrible, and many think life, does not work like this anymore, the truth however is that many people still are stuck in the class systems, there just not as rigid. There are many more opportunities available to people from all backgrounds, the availability of this however is not always easily found by everyone. So what makes someone rich or poor? People are rich or poor based on their family, education, and expectation of greatness. First, family plays the most important piece in whether or not someone ends up as a rich and successful person or a poor and unsuccessful person. Moms, dads, and siblings all play important roles in the shaping of people. If your family life has …show more content…
When judging how one becomes rich it is important to consider that many unconventional ways of becoming rich exist. People from all different backgrounds get to all different areas of life, some college students never graduate and end with low paying jobs, whereas a hard working man or woman can start at the bottom of the totem pole at a company and over the years, through long hours and hard work, become the CEO. Cases such as this can and do happen. So the differences between rich people in the end are rather complicated to define since there are many