s not telling how to change society in Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer, but how each person personally had to change in order to further advance themselves in society. He basically said not to become an independent producer, since they are in the boat that is sinking. If you want to get ahead in life, you need to jump into the boat that is rising and become a symbolic analyst, according to Reich. In my opinion society functions most like what Reich summarizes it as being, that of the educated symbolic analysts rising to the top of the social diamond in America, and those with no education sinking to the bottom. Then there are those with little education who are just staying level, but will eventually sink. If you do not do as much as you can to put yourself as close to the top of the social ladder, you will fall and sink with the rest of society...
