Sunday, April 11, 2010

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...

2 comments:

  1. Interesting - I'm not sure I see Mike as pessimistically. He says some very idealistic things about how things could be different in terms of how different groups of workers from different social classes interact. IT might be interesting to think not just about how the people in the film and interview are similar, but what each say about our social class system .. .

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  2. Hi Ganna - I read your draft - I think you have a good start, but it feels a bit like that - a start. Your first three paragraphs are all a kind of introduction. The first two are pretty generally - I'd work on specifying or condensing the first two - when you talk about the American dream in the second paragraph, be more specific about how you've experienced or come across this idea - or move more quickly to introducing Krugman.

    Either way you want more room to talk in detail about your texts, the different parts of the issue, and the possible solutions. We need more of your voice in these sections.

    Remember to include a second text - Terkel or the film. This will help go more into the individual part of how social class affects people and how they feel about it.

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