"Leave it to Beaver" persona poured from home to home and engrossed the budding families to

come. Now in the modern day "Gucci" society, a one person income is not adequate enough to

keep a family above water. Everything is getting to be more and more expensive, but the income

of modern families, is not rising to the occasion. Robert Reich in "Why the Rich Are Getting

Richer and the Poor, Poorer," describes a metaphor of three boats, explaining the fates of the

following American workers: the routine producer, the in-person server, and the symbolic analyst.

The first group of American workers that Reich discusses is the routine producer, or

factory worker. He stresses that in the mid twentieth century, routine producers were to make a

decent living: they could buy homes, take annual vacations, and save toward retirement(254).

However, Reich states that this is no longer the case. His metaphorical boat containing the

routine producers is sinking steadily(254). Because of ease of transportation as well as advances

in communication, "modern factories can be installe

unevenly"(259).Many in-person servers may only work part time, or get paid only minimum

competition ensures that the wages of in-person servers will remain relatively low (261). Reich

containing the in-person server is sinking as well, but somewhat more slowly and more

actresses, boxers, scriptwriters, songwriters, and set designers"(264). Reich says that with rising

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Approximate Word count = 1201
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)