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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Final Essay

The world around us is like the board game Monopoly. Players would go around the board game to try and collect income and collect as much properties as they can so other players would have to pay off rent. The rent that players pay is like how people in our society would have to pay off their bills on a monthly basis. The objective of the game is to gain as many properties as a player can and try to have the most expenses. This is often known as the successful dream that every American wants to achieve. There are many factors that create roadblocks for citizens to achieve this dream. In the book, The Rich and The Rest of Us, by Smiley Tavis and Cornel West, they discuss issues about these problems that affect our society. The problem that people are having trouble facing is the fact that jobs are disappearing in companies because it has been taken over by machines. We don’t have enough income to pay off monthly bills due to the increase in pricing. These are reasons why people have not been able to achieve successful due to those factors.
The amount of jobs that have been cut off due to machines taking over their positions is growing little by little as people don’t notice all the job cuts they have given out. Big corporations have found ways to invest into small matters that will give them more income as they take jobs opportunities away. They don’t have to pay a machine to operate as much as they would have to pay an employee to work the same job. You basically don’t want workers. You hire less, and you try to find capital equipment to replace them”’ (130). This will give citizens less chances to have a job in which they will be in poverty.  This will draw them further away from being able to successful in their life.
Since companies are taking jobs away from citizens, there will be fewer people with a stable job to pay off their bills. Having a stable income is the start to have a brighter future and become higher up in society. Since prices for everything has increase, the amount of labor income people get hasn't been changed. Smiley and Cornel mentioned, “Middle class people would disparage low-incoming people. Low-incoming people would dog the working poor, and the working poor would beat down on the homeless poor-because we all want to feel like we have some sort of stature in life” (171). Because of this issue, people have been working countless hours hoping to have for income to support their family and themselves but they work so much for the same pay they would normally get while resources that they need are slowly increasing in price. This slowly drives them away from being able to be successful in the future. The same factor applies to living costs that need to be met as they have a house to maintain. People’s income that they receive from their jobs won’t be enough to pay for their bills since price has raised so much.
The strive to live as an American has been so tough for every single citizen that they have to work hard every day to be stable and fit in with society. Their hope to one day be successful and have no worries on the next bill statement would relief them from their hard work. Smiley and Cornel stated, “The dream of equality, hope, and liberty was woven deeply into the fabric of American” (34). This is what makes up an American so that they can strive hard and one day they can hope to achieve success due to their hard work that they have shown. Citizens always want to try to get the better of them by having to go to work and get big thank you from their manager. That one thank you can determine the outcome of their future in the business and perhaps a promotion. Their motivation to have a sense of hope is what it takes them people to continue to try harder. This also means that while others are trying harder to achieve a higher position, there are people who don’t care as long as it is enough to fuel them to live. This can simply be why some people haven’t been able to get away from the poverty state. Those people are reasons why some families struggle to have a better future.

With the lack of jobs and the increased price of resources, Americans have a harder life to deal with if they want to be more successful than where they are right now. With the hope that Americans have within them, they want to succeed. This is often crushed by the fact that it will be hard for them to be successful. People would be paid the same amount as the price of costing and other materials will soar up. Even with these factors that will hold citizens back from achieving better in society; they still have the hope to one day be able to surpass others and become successful.
Works Cited:
Smiley, Tavis, and Cornel West. The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. New York: Smiley, 2012. Print.

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