Reich’s Boats In the late 1970's it was customary for families to have the “dad” as the bread winner. The “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 …showed first 75 words of 1225 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1225 total…became less essential to the economic survival. As one can see, Robert Reich in “Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer” makes it clear that in America the workers are passengers in three different boats each one with its own burdens and holes. The rapidly sinking routine producers, the tipsy in-person servers, and the steadily rising symbolic analysts are as Reich describes a metaphor of the American workers holding the economy together.