{"id":11522,"date":"2025-09-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:31:51","slug":"brittany-wells-discussion-board-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/09\/28\/brittany-wells-discussion-board-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Wells Discussion Board 5.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The statistic on wealth inequality in the US that made the biggest impression on me was 90% of American families have little or no net assets. This stood out to me because the majority of society cannot afford the things the top 1% can afford. The majority of american families must work in order to survive and that is all they can do, survive. They cannot invest in stocks or buy land and assets because they only have enough to sustain their means of subsistence. The top 1% contains a lot of people who were born into generational wealth and do not have to work for their money. Due to the majority of the US not coming from wealthy families, most people will accept being paid less than the value of their labor. Workers are not paid fairly which is why the poor will remain poor no matter how hard they work. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This was definitely an eye opener to see how inequality in the US will most likely become worse instead of getting better. The cycle will continue where the workers are under-paid and the capitalists continue to increase their wealth. In the world we live in, inflation is a big issue. Inflation has increased the price of food, housing and transportation. It has also impacted businesses where people became unemployed from budget cuts and layoffs. How can the working class and poor ever be equal to the wealthy, when the Top 1% has been designed to remain wealthy even among the struggling conditions of society since birth? <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-3","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0508-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}