Inquiry # 4: Nickel and Dimed

It was really funny reading the part about the upper class shedding their pubic hair at an alarming rate. A couple of summers' ago, I worked offshore for a catering company. My job was to clean all the rooms and restrooms for the people on the oil rig. These toilets had so much hair on them, I wondered if these people shaved above the toilet at times. I never shed hair on my toilet but maybe that will start happening once I finish school and start making "real" money (That was a joke). Anyways, I thought it was really cool for her to try living in a minimum wage worker, but she really did not get the full experience. Many of these minimum wage workers have kids and have to worry about being laid off. She was able to control factors like the ones' I just mentioned. I know upper class people hate when the lower class complains because they feel as though they have earned the write to live a privileged life. While this is true for a huge percentage of the upper class, many of them are upper class just because of who they know (Their parents, friends, etc). That is the way of the world. However, lower class people have the opportunity to work their way up from nothing these days. I can name countless examples of this, and I feel I will be another example of this in a couple years. There is not much government can do to solve the problems of the lower class, in my opinion. Government certainly can help a lot, but the key to solving the problems of the lower class revolves around parenting and getting children out of bad neighborhoods. Once a child is influenced by the wrong crowd, it's hard to get that child back on the right path. Another child on the wrong path means a growing lower class, and a more powerful upper class.