Inequality

When I started going through the assigned readings for the class, I noticed that in the inequality trailer that income was a big deal. This sort of became the units focus I think because people who have working class jobs don’t honestly get paid enough. I couldn’t agree with that statement more because I have had job that has me work a lot but doesn’t pay well at all. This is simply because the U.S. puts our money towards other things. In the trading places trailer we see to movie characters switch places, one having a really high job in the market while the other person doesn’t have a job at all. I can definitely notice that we can do high-class jobs just as easy as low income jobs just the only difference is pay. When reading the Seattle times article I notice that all the low-income workers went on strike because they did not feel that they got paid enough, we see that the people ordering the food actually appreciated what the employees were doing because they all knew that people are getting screwed over for pay on how much time they put into there work. How much we are getting paid is a big deal to us and we can see that also in the other Seattle time’s article. Reading the NPR article, we start to notice big lumps of money be sent to the fast food workers but they don’t want to give them raises. I honestly seem to think our country is digging ourselves a hole into debt because of how much money we spend, I think on useless things for our country. I start to notice that not everyone gets a choice on where they want to work because some people have families to care for and such, so they can’t really start school nor have the money for with a full family. I think that this unit is going to be a interesting one to talk about in class because we will be able to see what other students think about low-income jobs since we have all have had one and I think that people will have different answers. Inequality is a big thing happening in the U.S. and I think that it is something that needs to be changed otherwise it will drastically hurt us in the long run. Lastly I believe that jobs will ever be changing since people just don’t get paid much and always go on strike asking for more money. I remember I was reading one of the articles and it talked about how they were trying to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars, which would be nice but it would never happen because the U.S. just doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around. So I think it would probably be a more realistic goal to lower that number because I feel that asking for 15 is just to much to ask for especially when it comes to out country.