What is the gap between the rich and the poor in America?

The gap between the rich and the poor in the United States is indeed a very big social problem. Different from the concept of European welfare society, the development of China and Latin America can be seen everywhere in the shadow of its mother-the United States.

When you turn on the TV, whether it is live news or movies and TV series, you can often see the figure of ordinary Americans: fat, with a beer belly, black and yellow skin, wrinkled skin and sloppy clothes. Driving an old car, engaged in manual labor or service industry for many years, not good at math. I barely finished high school. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, I began to work as a salesman and cashier, or as a worker in a local factory. I only bought the cheapest genetically modified food and a lot of junk food such as potato chips and soda in the supermarket. I don't like reading books and feel good about myself. Such people account for more than 50% of the American population. It is in sharp contrast with the smart and tasteful white-collar workers in Manhattan and the handsome, steady, polite and experienced students in Ivy League University. Not to mention the big bosses and tycoons who take helicopters on Long Island.

The black liberation movement gave slaves equality in law, but in fact there is still an invisible force in society, which separates these bottom people, colored people and immigrants from the mainstream society with "invisible hands".

The first means of separation is education.

Gone are the golden days when America could have a good life as a worker on the Ford assembly line. With the mid-range jobs flowing overseas, the American job market began to be polarized: on the one hand, high-end R&D design, management and capital operation (about 30%), on the other hand, low-end service industries, such as barbershops and restaurants. The university degree is the decisive factor that can determine where most ordinary people can stand.

However, the invisible hand prevented these blacks and poor people from going to college. First of all, the high tuition fees, which are more than $50,000 a year in top schools, can keep most blacks out. In America, the average annual income of a family is only $53,000. Low-income families tend to have more children, and one child can still be won (regardless of whether Latin America has an education-oriented culture like Asia). If there are several children, it is impossible for them to enjoy such private education. Secondly, parents' low educational quality and backward ideas are the fundamental reasons that prevent these children from making further efforts. Except for a few students who can get admission to prestigious schools and scholarships, poor families are not very top students themselves, so they can only go to state universities, community colleges or even drop out of school. Where are the others? Go to the supermarket to sell vegetables, go to the grocery store to deliver takeout, and work as a waiter. This life is probably like this, and the future is slim. They must be a lost generation, and their children can't escape the repetition of fate.

The second means of separation is knowledge.

Knowledge needs to be discussed in two points: one is anti-intellectualism in the United States, and the other is intellectual property. Let's start with intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights protect the interests of capitalists, but also monopolize the knowledge linked to wealth to a certain extent. Whether you buy textbooks, listen to songs, or read books, magazines and movies, you need to spend money to buy them. For example, a new textbook usually costs 200 dollars. An ordinary popular reading is about 20 yuan, a CD 12 yuan, and a magazine is about 5 yuan, unlike China, Sina, I share, qq music and fast broadcast. As a result, the poor have no access to (buy) a lot of knowledge, so they can only find alternative ways to get free information: free resources of TV and Internet. Television is full of brain-dead entertainment programs, especially in America (because good channels have to pay). There is only information but no knowledge on the Internet. Lack of guidance and systematicness, blind exploration, learning nothing. At the same time, what are the rich children of their age doing? They enjoy expensive private education and grow rapidly, becoming students with broad vision and all-round development. They get the guidance of Nobel-level masters, read their high-level works, get all kinds of information by communicating with the same excellent peers, practice in famous companies, exchange abroad, and even have the opportunity to participate in national government projects. With the time gap, the intellectual class will inevitably divide.

On anti-intellectualism. If you pay a little attention to TV series, you will notice that the mainstream ideas in America are "anti-mathematics" and "anti-nerd". The people who are most poisoned by this influence are the middle and lower classes who often watch TV. So their behavior is easily influenced by media brainwashing. Those rich children study grammar, Latin, mathematics and science, take the SAT to make up lessons, volunteer in developing countries, read classic works, and attend pre-university in private schools. It is conceivable that those children in the middle and lower classes naturally have poor SAT scores, because TV tells them that studying hard and being good at math is not sexy, which is what nerds do. When the SAT scores are in a mess, when they think back on their lives, no one can blame themselves, let alone the government: the way to rise if you don't study math is there, and the government won't force you not to go. The miracle of anti-intellectualism is that those young and ignorant children will say: Ha, let those nerds succeed, I don't care about math, who cares! After drinking a bottle of magic medicine for self-anesthesia, my waist is not sore, my legs are not painful, and I am strong in walking. Let them learn actuarial science, statistics, financial mathematics and computers? Don't even think about it Poor children have no skills, so it is difficult to compete with those rich children. It is even more impossible to change fate.

The phrase "knowledge changes fate" has never been as practical as in class society. Only by skill can the civilian class get tickets to the upper class. But when the top-level design wants to shut these people out, it uses anti-intellectual media brainwashing and other means to drug these brainless poor people.

After these fierce drugs, basically most of the relatively junior monsters fell in batches. The remaining stubborn weeds are either thoughtful or extremely clever, or have other opportunities to contact information and know how to make progress (for example, there are successful people at home, an awesome uncle, a friend who falls into the mortal world, and so on). ), that is, the group of people with successful class mobility. Their wisdom and thoughts, as well as their spirit of refusing to accept the big trend, make them worthy of such success.

Finally, the United States praised these little people through the media, praised the United States of America and praised democracy, and then used the habitual self-confidence teaching method to build their unparalleled self-confidence in their idiotic words and deeds, and used some brain-dead movies and TV programs to make these people get sensory entertainment without making progress, and then destroyed their health and intelligence with genetically modified food.