How much inequality should be tolerated?

How much in necessary? Beneficial?

Democratic? Moral?

• What is your net worth? • How did you calculate this? • This is a good number to tell you if

you are winning or losing in the financial game of life.

What would you say is your social class?

How did you decide that?

• 2. How do you feel about people that are obviously in a lower or higher class than yourself?

• How do you feel they think about you?

3. Why are people unequal in society?

How would a wealthy person answer this question?

How would a poor person answer this question?

• 4. What ideas in American society can be used to defend the systems of inequality in America?

• 5. What advantages do leaders in any organization or society have that allow them to keep their positions?

• 6. Why is social equality so difficult to establish and maintain?

• 7. Why does the division of labor encourage social inequality?