30 Days

Today in sociology class we watched a segment on how a man and his wife are going to live on minimum wage for 30 days straight. No one can really relate to the lower class until they have gone through those tough times. People think that they can get through it or they have it bad but not until you realize when your in so much debit that you can barely provide food on the table for your family that it is hard. Watching this movie was really interesting to me because it showed everyone how hard life can be living off of $7.00 or less per hour and no medical insurance. In the movie the mans wife was getting mad when he bought a .70 cent donut when they brought kids to live with them to see how much harder it is with them. It was interesting to see a fight over such a small amount of money but I see where she was coming from since she walked to work to save $2.00. We also talked about the different social classes like upper class who are very wealthy and success or are born into it, middle class, working class and then lower class. Knowing all this, it made me lucky to see how hard my parents are working to help me succeed and I would love to do the same once I get out of college because I see how hard it can be.