Engaging the Text #2 pg. 322

Eli Pardue
9/26/07
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

No. 2

Yes, Mantsios does not make a case that rich people exploit poor people. In the relationship that Mantsios makes between Harold Browning, Bob Farrell, and Cheryl Mitchell, he makes the point that The upper class, people such as Harold Browning, need people like Bob Farrell and Cheryl Mitchell to keep their status as upper class citizens. If there was no one to provide the lesser jobs in the economy that took less skill land required less pay, then eventually all jobs would be given the same pay, and that is closer to communism.
Matisos gets sidetracked in his explanation, however, and needed to devote much more of the paper to his point, as he could have gone much deeper on the topic. It is also very difficult to back his argument, however, because the spectrum of salaries in the USA is so broad, it is silly to classify them in middle, upper and lower class. Would it really be the same thing to call one who has an income of ninety thousand as in the same calss as one who makes three-hundred plus dollars a year?