Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption (P.334)

In this article Dianna Kendall talks about the portrayals of life in different social classes of what is real and what is not real. She starts off by talking about the one of many examples that demonstrate how class is played for laughs by the media in the tv show the simple life..... A well watched show staring two well-known rich heiresses( Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton) trying to make a living in the not so glamerous life by living with the less fortunate. We see how they live ,and what they wear by watching all these reality show.We believe that we need all the high end fashion and glamerous cars, houses and shoes. This lifestyle of the poor & unfamous is puttin many in debt! People think we need to live a certain way by what the media shows us. On page 342 Kendall talks about what percentage of the nations wealth.. aaaand a whoppin 90% of households only own 28% of the nations wealth! That would be most of us :/ ugh,That's crap... Do the rich just get weathier and the poor stay poor? Is it crap how some people work their butt off to try and make all dem money & some are just born into wealth. Will this change? Or will we just finally relize that we are not in the class of the rich & famous and buy things within our means?