... It helped reinforce a good many ideas Ive had about the working of the American economic (social) system that until now Ive considered theoretical or speculative at best. ... Because of this I can easily understand, after reading this book, how many of the systems in place in America to unbalance pay, among other things, work . ... I believe that his assertion that the popular opinion surrounding inequality in pay and wage distribution falls incorrectly on skill-bias. He suggests that this phenomenon (inequality in pay) is vastly more complicated than this and there are other mechanisms functioning to produce it. ... They comprise almost 85 percent of the American work force. ... These things taken together broke down the solidarity of the American middle-class. ... A modern and quite widespread American idea that came from it was the idea of equality of opportunity. ... In other words, the American market (the benefactors of which are only the truly elite) got a profit boost in the form of labor wage cuts the likes of which has not been known since the advent of feminism. ... As demonstrated in the previous paragraph, many aspects of this shift that is destroying what is left of the American middle class could have been prevented by policy actions; not all of it was unavoidable. ...
What about the American consumer society and the class structure that it has created? ... The problem is that while were here, and it isnt very long, we seem to be trapped in some system that forces us to engage in a meaningless act for the better part of our only chance at existence, and one that is created by other people, not unlike ourselves at all!
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