We lived on macaroni and cheese. Often one student, usually a white male, says he has hopes that he can work hard and join Sue. It's our fault if we don't make it. If students do not mention scapegoating, I bring it up. When I ask the nine students grouped around the three chairs why they don't get organized to force a redistribution of the wealth, they offer a variety of answers.
College students share examples from their experiences.
A junior high coach described a local billionaire who offered to write the coach's school a check of any amount in order to get his child on the baseball team. The athletes and entertainers whose salaries are hyped in the media and newly rich entrepreneurs like Donald Trump and Bill Gates are always mentioned. I point out that these are the upwardly mobile people, who moved from the three chairs up to Sue's chair. Most texts and teachers stop after they have taught about the unequal distribution of wealth, but that is only a piece of the picture. We need to go on to ask why wealth is so unequally distributed.