Reich’s Boats

eventually, will happily work for a small fraction of the wages of routine producers in America”

(291). In the late 1970's it was customary for families to have the “dad” as the bread winner. The

“Leave it to Beaver” persona poured from home to home and engrossed the budding families to

come. Now in the modern day “Gucci” society, a one person income is not adequate enough to

keep a family above water. Everything is getting to be more and more expensive, but the income

of modern families, is no longer a safety boat . Robert Reich in “Why the Rich Are Getting

Richer and the Poor, Poorer,” describes a metaphor of three boats, the routine producer, the in-

person server, and the symbolic analyst, explaining the fates of these American workers.

The first group of American workers that Reich discusses is the routine producer, the

hands on producing worker that helps the larger corporations manufacture their goods. He

stresses that in the mid twentieth century, routine producers were to make a decent living: they

could buy homes, take annual vacations, an

surge of workers by 2010"(298). Reich also says “as the baby-boomers reach retirement age and

in direct competition with routine produces in other nations”(292).Furthermore this has affected

server boat. “Automated tellers, computerized cashier, automatic car washer, robotized vending

its own burdens and holes. The rapidly sinking routine producers, which is in a whirlpool because

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