30 Days

This week we continued talking about social class but we also talked about how people live in that class live. The poor were not even making enough to support their family let alone themselves. We watched a show and it was about how this couple who was living the high end of life but decided to live on minimum wage. Even on minimum wage, they were barely getting by. They were only trying to support each other but even that was hard. Those that have kids and more to take care of on minimum wage is just really brave. We know there's the lower poor class but we don't really do much. Sure there's a few here and there things that are done, but it's really not doing much if you step back and look at the whole poor class. The couple in the show only had to live on minimum wage for a month, but there's people who try to make it on minimum wage their whole lives.

We also played Monopoly but with different rules. Whoever rolled the highest dice would be the old money and then second highest was new money, but everyone later than that would be either middle-class or working class.We don't really get to pick our social status, especially if you're born into it. You can move up a bit, but that's really hard to do when everything almost requires money to attain. I only work at local cafes to make money so I can spend it on the movies are shopping, but there's people who  work in cafes to support their family at home.