Foucault
“The rich get richer” is one way to phrase the power distribution in the United States. If we dig a bit further, “rich” is simply having more power than the poor or working class. With power comes added benefits of control and exercise. Now although the rich is often synonymous with power, power does not have a financial definition where someone needs to be “this” rich to have control over how society works. Those who have power are those who were given authority to do so. Authority can be self given or achieved through education and knowledge. It is then, how Michel Foucault states in Truth and Power, that power is associated with knowledge, and we cannot have one without the other. This knowledge that we speak of is not necessarily
“The rich get richer” is one way to phrase the power distribution in the United States. If we dig a bit further, “rich” is simply having more power than the poor or working class. With power comes added benefits of control and exercise. Now although the rich is often synonymous with power, power does not have a financial definition where someone needs to be “this” rich to have control over how society works. Those who have power are those who were given authority to do so. Authority can be self given or achieved through education and knowledge. It is then, how Michel Foucault states in Truth and Power, that power is associated with knowledge, and we cannot have one without the other. This knowledge that we speak of is not necessarily