Hunger For More-Ch 9.

Everyone in society these days has the hunger for more. The strive for success and wanting the best for themselves and  their families. Not everyone has an equal opportunity to do so which is unfortunate. Our struggles to move classes and deal with our life chances sets us back. In chapter 9 Weber talked about our life chances which is the likelihood a person has of obtaining valued economic and cultural resources. Life chances can be education or the lack of it,  experience we have which can increase our likelihood of getting a certain job, all of these come into play when we are trying to be successful. Not everyone has the chances to move up a class and usually hardly ever to people move from the lower class to the capitalist or upper class. People think because people are poor it was their fault or they didn't work hard enough as the article "Media Magic Making Class Invisible "stated. Even in the video People like Us it shows you how the rich judge the poor and how the poor judge the rich and the stereotypes that come into play. Its amazing how the media portrays the poor as being as oppose to the rich. Many times the media ignores the poor and doesn't even acknowledge them. When the media does show the poor they often show the poor as being African-American and they show them living in the projects. In chapter 9 it was shown that statistics showed that most poor people in the United States in 2009 were white which equaled to 68.5%. I believe not all poor people are poor because they are lazy or they have no drive it may be true for some people in some cases but in most cases it is mainly because they don't have the resources to do so. Some people can't afford a college education or may not have the certain connections they need to get a specific job. This article definitely made me realize to keep my eye on the prize and get that degree! There may be a lot of things holding me back as far as my life chances and the class I was born into but I plan on changing that and doing the best I can for my family and I.