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.