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, and

who after years of assembling their telephones at a factory in Louisiana relocated to Singapore

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

This meaning that for every in-person sever job lost to automation, a routine production job

to generate sizeable numbers of new in-person sever jobs (297). Reich states that for every bank

quest for cheaper labor(291). Reich stresses that “routine producers in the united states, then, are

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