Question

A Growing Middle Class Envisages an end to privileges . Explain this sentence breifly.

Answer 1

The new cable channel Planet Green keeps reminding me I'm not a person. It goes like this: an expert on one of their shows says, "If everyone in America would do this, we'd save eleventh billion tons of resources/pollution" and then they do something that only one who owns her dwelling is empowered to do. Those who can't do it - renters, most of whom would prefer to be owners but can't afford it - are not part of "everyone." We are "no one." We aren't people.

This is not hyperbole. I live in a country that can't stop slapping itself on the back for a document that declared "all men are created equal" but quickly followed that up with documents explaining that when they said "men", what they really had in mind was "white male property owners over 21." We already know people of color didn't count (well… ugh) and women didn't count. Now I'm taking a fresh look at my country, this supposed revolutionary style of governing in which (now that we've ironed out that pesky 1700s thinking) everyone is free and equal, and realizing that people who don't own anything are simply not valuable.