Middle class

During the late 18th century the term “class” began to replace earlier classifications that was used to divide society economically. These divides, which are still in existence today, are based off the common three-stratum model that separates society into three general categories. The first being an “upper class”; this class is the class that has ownership and power over the means of production. The second would be a “middle class” that consists of professional workers, small business owners…

In Barbara Ehrenreich’s This is Their Land, she suggests that the middle class is being limited by the unreasonable amount of accumulated debt on when entering the workforce, the irrational cost of living, and the restricted opportunity for higher wages. In recent times, America’s economy has progressively struggled and diminished to the point where other countries no longer consider America the number one economy. In 2008, America’s economy was in a large financial crisis, which resulted in the…

The middle class should be worried about themselves. The middle class claims that its unequal to them and the upper class gets whatever they want when in reality, the upper class really works for what they have. They know how to make money and the middle class does not. The middle class do not work for what they want that is why they are still stuck in the middle class. The middle class are uneducated on how to make money so they chose the easy way out and find a job that is not guaranteed for…

How Rich Countries Lift up the Poor, Middle Class Shrinks further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing out and The One Percent. Roughly it is stated that middle class income is starting at $35,000 to $100,000 for a family of four. I have to disagree with that because it is such a big gap. I feel that anyone making over $85,000 should be considered upper middle. Speaking for a family of four having a combined income of $35,000 should be lower and not middle class. Just rent itself out of that for…

Robert Reich proposed a decent and well thought out argument on how to sustain a strong middle class. At the same time, I do not think the way he thinks we should sustain a strong middle class is the best entirely. He is a little biased in his way of thinking which is strictly democratic policies, where I tend to disagree with. He understands global economics, but does his understanding cause financial success for american workers. Some of his propositions are worthwhile like “Overturn Citizens…

Willy Loman: A Martyr of the Middle Class For many decades now, the American middle class has been subject to great self-delusion and failure. Stuck in a social construct not quite poor but far from wealthy, the suburban class tends to search for high risks with high rewards. Furthermore, it is constantly pressured by the materialistic extravagance of the affluent class, tempted to don superficial luxuries to disguise its lack of prosperity. This yearning to bridge the gap between lavishness…

Being in a working middle class family, we never really struggled but we did not have to luxury lifestyle we always dreamed of. My dad always portrayed they messages of “you do not have to work because your parents work, but you are going to work to understand that you have to work hard for your money”. I am very much spoiled but my parents did make me go find job to get the feeling of what most working middle class felt like. Even though I was spoil and often times received what I wanted, the…

shrinking of the Middle class. This is caused by various factors for example, the disappearing of opportunities for those with little education, global competition, and rapid advances in technology. Right now, the working class makes up 40 to 45 percent of the population; eventually as technology rapidly advances those numbers will begin to decrease. As a result, there will be a drastic change in the size of the middle class; as the middle class continues to decrease the lower class will…

view of United States pop culture and mass media. One of my personal favorite frames that Kendall talks about is the Middle-class values framing. This type of framing focuses on the “values of this class and suggest that they hold the nation together” (Kendall 59). A show that features this type of frame would be Arrested Development. This show makes fun of the typical middle-class by showing how dysfunctional the family really is. Through the writer’s clever use of the idea of focusing every…

displaying a double standard in the classes. Undoubtedly men have the power in a marriage, but that power differs depending on the class. While an upper class man can dispose or cheat on his wife at will, a middle class man does not have that luxury and instead may just kill them. Devoid of the protection of family name and already in a precarious social position middle class men who have made their money working are far more susceptible to gossip or backlash by doing something as outlandish as…