In the late 1970's it was customary for families to have the "dad" as the bread winner. The
"Leave it to Beaver" persona poured from home to home and engrossed the budding families to
come. Now in the modern day "Gucci" society, a one person income is not adequate enough to
keep a family above water. Everything is getting to be more and more expensive, but the income
of modern families, is not rising to the occasion. Robert Reich in "Why the Rich Are Getting
Richer and the Poor, Poorer," describes a metaphor of three boats, explaining the fates of the
following American workers: the routine producer, the in-person server, and the symbolic analyst.
The first group of American workers that Reich discusses is the routine producer, or
factory worker. He stresses that in the mid twentieth century, routine producers were to make a
decent living: they could buy homes, take annual vacations, and save toward retirement(254).
However, Reich states that this is no longer the case. His metaphorical boat containing the
routine producers is sinking steadily(254). Because of ease of transportation as well as advances
in communication, "modern factories can be installed all most any where on the globe"(254).
Therefore, it is a simple process for factories simply to relocate wherever labor is cheapest. Reich
cites the example of AT&T, who after years of assembling their telephones at a factory in
Louisiana relocated to Singapore where labor cost were cheaper. However, "by the late
1980s, AT&T's strategic brokers found that routine producers in Thailand were eager to
assemble telephones for a small fraction of the wagers of routine producers in Singapore"(255).
Thus, the factory was once again moved in the quest for cheaper labor(255). Reich stresses that
"routine producers in the united states, then, are in dir...