October 1

The article does not specifically say that the rich are benefiting from the poor, it just implies that this is happening. It states that the people born into wealth are more likely to be wealthy than those born into poverty. From this, I take that the rich benefit from the poor because they are taking all of the available jobs that the lower class would need to become part of the middle class. The information could also be interpreted that being in the upper class is bad. It could be said that people would be much better off if they were all closer to middle class than having extremes. The idea of bad health care for the lower classes could be eliminated to some degree if there was not an elite upper class that can afford advanced medical care. The elite upper class ruins most of the chances that the lower class has to succeed, so eliminating them, the lower class would be able to become part of the middle class with less of a challenge.