Post#4: part of my draft about inequality

The American' society two or three hundred years ago, the same as the society today, was divided on classes, but without strong boundaries between them. In his article “Confronting Inequality” Paul Krugman, who teaches economics at Princeton and writes an op-ed column in New York Times, said: “Ever since America’s founding, our idea of ourselves has been that of a nation without sharp class distinctions – not a leveled society of perfect equality, but one in which the gap between the economic elite and the typical citizen isn’t an unbridgeable chasm” (p.323). So, anyone could “build the bridge” from class to class. The class mobility was pretty high because the gap between classes wasn’t that big. Today, unfortunately, the gap between classes looks more like Grand Canyon.

Post# 3: conection between Mike and Rich Kids...

First, I was confused: what type of connection might be between Mike and Rich Kids; person, who do not want to lose 25 cents/hour of his salary "cause it's $10 a week" and people who talk about million/billion numbers... But when read Mike's interview second time I realize that, yes, Mike and Rich Kids live financially ex-trimly different lives, but there are common feelings they share about it: they are bored, tied of this life, and have no goal, no plans for their future.
Of course, it seems more fun to be bored with parties then with hard job; and its probably feels more secure if you don't know what you want to do in the future because you have too much money, then if you don't know what to do because you have no money. But the bottom line: they are not happy. They don't satisfied with their lives and they don't know how to change it.
Actually, Mike already kind of give up: he wants pretty much nothing for himself - beer on the couch in the end of the day, beer in the bar in the end of the week and "homework" time-to-time. One good thing, he still has hope for his son.
On the other hand Jamie Johnson made the film "Born Rich" because he was trying to find the answer: what to do with his life? with all those money? how to find sense and meaning in life? how other Rich Kids handle it? what they will to do with their lives? who do they want to be?

As I remember no one couldn't answer those questions...