Wealth in the USA

The wealthy are given so many extra privileges in life. They can buy whatever they want without even thinking about the price. Their stress levels are reduced because there are less worries over money and paying bills. When we played monopoly in class, the wealthy had such a large advantage over everybody else because they owned more properties and money, and they received the most total money from passing go and from rent. Wealth can also give someone more connections in the world to get things done easier and know somebody for whatever needs to be done. Also, the wealthy can have security financially and physically just in case things get bad, so they don't have many worries in the world that most other people worry about everyday. In the movie we watched in class, there was a family who lived in a trailer home, and the mom's car didn't work and she walked miles to work. Wealthy people don't have to walk miles to work, and they may not even have to work much. Lower class people don't always have money either and may have to take out loans that they will pay back the rest of their lives if their income doesn't change, so people usually stay within their own class throughout life. One thing that could be done to make things more fair is to give more federal help to lower class people, but if everything becomes equal, then we would turn into a socialistic society, so there isn't much that can be done besides just to tax the wealthy some more.