The Haves and The Have Not’s

"Sunday: Class is a relation of owning. Monday: However it is not any owning but owning what produces more owning—it is owning labor (living and past) because labor is "a commodity that has the peculiar property that its use is the source of new value."

This is what was stated in Ebert's article on what class is related to, those who own and those who work for the owners to circle back and give their money back to the owners. If you think about it, the article made sense. There are only two classes, those who have and those who don’t; I mean that's basically what we strive for in our societies. The American Dream is based on it, having family, a good job, a big house, and money to play with. TV shows advertise it all the time. From Desperate Housewives to Gossip girl, it’s all one big advertisement for these seven days of the week. Even college has the underline of money-making. Go to school, become well educated and you’ll get the good job and make the money you didn’t have growing up. This isn’t always true. Especially not in today’s world, so there it is…our reality. Our reality advertising the obvious in our own faces, you don’t have money, get it and get it soon. Because you either or you don’t, and money is fun, there is no middle class anymore; middle class is in the state of mind. Your actual worth class is based on your ability and net worth.

This is basically the same main point in the article proceeding by Marx, in which its focus is on the bourgeois, more importantly the worker of the bourgeois. Those who are the crowded in the factories and worked like soldiers all for the profit of capital, or for the worker or Proletariat, a wage that can keep him or her in subsistence and doesn’t take them very far. And that forces him to return to his or her line of work in order to increase the capital of the bourgeois and keep their minimum wage. Which brings me back to the American Dream, which brings people back to work, and the irony in the haves and have not’s. The have not’s go back to work thinking the longer they stay or the more they work the more they’ll earn, when in reality the world is set up to keep the rich, richer, and the poor, poorer. And in this we see the irony, the irony being that the have not’s never realize that their work is for nothing. Their jobs only make them enough to live week by week, so no matter how much they save, they’ll be on the other side of the American Dream. They’ll just stay in their 9 to 5’s and live in their daydreams of the house in the suburbs and the happy wife and happy life, never realizing that for them that dream lives and dies for them on Wisteria Lane.