Social Class In The Film Inequality For All

It is fair to say that in the United States today there is a very clear division between the working class and the social elite. There are some who have it all, while there are some who are just scraping to get by, and in the middle are those who are working just to make enough to live a comfortable life. According to the film, Inequality For All it focuses on former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich and his push to wake America up and see that the gap between the rich and the poor is continuing to get wider and how we are letting it happen right before our eyes. Reich, whose ideas and methodologies as to why the phenomena of the giant gap continue to happen, show the reality of how the middle class keeps losing money while the upper class keeps getting richer. The biggest thing that stands out in the film is the eerie comparison of the stock market crash in 1929, to that of the stock market crash in 2008. The rather unsettling comparison between the two couldn’t be any clearer. Reich compares the crashes to the structure of the Golden Gate Bridge, on the sides you have two …show more content…
Too often does something happen and we so carelessly let it pass us by in hopes that maybe it will just fix itself. Our economy and the inequality of social classes is something that can be fixed, but in order to do so there have got to be some major changes not only within the upper class, but the middle class as well. We live in one of the greatest countries in the world, yet we treat each other like crap in terms of equality. As a whole we need to come together and fight the gap that divides us. America would be a much nicer place, if more people had the chance to live a comfortable life. One in which they didn’t have to fear whether or not they were going to be able to afford their next meal or pay their bills on time. Money which is such a necessity in this world, is also become the thing that divides