But unfortunately not everyone can have that opportunity, the poor have never been able to afford better textbooks or novels, while the rich can get the new updated things. The same journalist, Karl Marx, states that, “They are able to develop a distinctive style of life based on extensive cultural pursuits and leisure activities, to exert a considerable influence on economic policy and political decisions, and to procure for their children a superior education and economic opportunities that help to perpetuate family wealth" ("Social Class"). The quote states that it is far more difficult for a poor person to become rich than a wealthy person to inherit money. This addresses the purpose that the higher class people have far more advantages over the poor, the kids grow up in a society that identifies where a person should live and be for their whole lives. The rich grow up with a perspective that the poor do not belong with the rich, giving them a motive to try and keep the poor from rising above them. These people are glorified, but underneath seem to be very
But unfortunately not everyone can have that opportunity, the poor have never been able to afford better textbooks or novels, while the rich can get the new updated things. The same journalist, Karl Marx, states that, “They are able to develop a distinctive style of life based on extensive cultural pursuits and leisure activities, to exert a considerable influence on economic policy and political decisions, and to procure for their children a superior education and economic opportunities that help to perpetuate family wealth" ("Social Class"). The quote states that it is far more difficult for a poor person to become rich than a wealthy person to inherit money. This addresses the purpose that the higher class people have far more advantages over the poor, the kids grow up in a society that identifies where a person should live and be for their whole lives. The rich grow up with a perspective that the poor do not belong with the rich, giving them a motive to try and keep the poor from rising above them. These people are glorified, but underneath seem to be very