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Essay On Lower Class

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My first topic is about capitalism and its effect on the lower class. This topic interests me because I am a business owner along with my father buying and selling assets such as old toys, electronics, jewelry, antiques, and really anything that has a high liquidity and moves fast. Owning a business means that we hire employees that work for us and are on the lower end of the class system and pay them a wage that is considered a fair wage for the work that is required for these positions. This topic also interests me because people who believe in a different economic system such as socialism and communism believe that my father and I are making money off the labor of our employees. To a certain extent that is true and we give the employees many benefits as well as a portion of the sales of the month. The better and more sales we make, the more money goes into the employee’s pocket on top of that the benefits we offer. Interest groups such as self-proclaimed Maoists, Marxist, red neck revolt, New Anticapitalistic party, Roots of resistance believe that the lower class is being eliminated and treated unfairly. Many newspapers such as “the guardian” report that robots will eventually take over these menial jobs by 2030. NBC reports that the middle class is disappearing and will cause a mass shift of people from the middle class to the lower class by 60% in 2021. There is a large amount of information available on both sides by credible sources, some even from George mason by professor Walter …show more content…

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