Poverty...

The quote, “When poverty ends, everybody wins – the economy of the nation as a whole, all classes, races, creed, and neighborhoods” (148).  I feel like that is a very big claim. Regardless of how that happens, someone or another will not be happy about poverty ending. It simply can not happen. We try so hard to cover up so much of reality that we start loosing the main touch of life. I feel that there should be a class system, which does not divide people by race, color or sex. It should mostly be about financial status. I mean, in all honesty, no one is going to want deal with you if can not keep yourself stable. There should be a right amount of competition to get people where they need to be. Having a communist type of nation doesn’t benefit anyone, where everyone is treated with the same amount of value. If we keep striving for that mediocre spot around us, we don’t win anything by that. We need to have some sort of level for us to keep going on.  

There is a man made border between the ultra rich, the middle class and the poverty class. The border can not be seen but can be felt by everyone. To get over the border requires a huge amount of knowledge and connection with big named people and an amount of money that the eye can never physically see. Which is why the top 1% has made such a border for themselves. They do not want to associate with people underneath them for obvious reasons, such as the main fact that they have no power in the world. Why would they want to associate with someone who has no effect on them whatsoever? It is kind of like the political system in a way. A good man tries to come out of nowhere and wants to change the wrongdoings of people. But in the process of removing the wrongdoings, he himself is engulfed in the vicious system and becomes part of the wrongdoers. The rich world is exactly like that. You may want to come in and change how the rich live and prosper but in the end you simply become one of them. You simply can not change the natural fact of people adapting to their environment around them.

            Coming up with a solution for such a complex system made up of corrupt, selfish, and powerful people are simply unheard of. It will take a lot of time, money, experience and sweat just to make one of them have a little change in heart. I am not saying it can not be done, it’s just that it is very unlikely of it happening anytime soon. To break apart such a hard piece of rock is no easy task. And the fact that it has been growing immensely over the years does not help. If we were to slowly make one then two then three and etc. realize the big effect they have on society, then we can make it big and slowly take apart the system.