Thursday, May 5, 2011

Make-Up blog from last week

This week we talked a lot about social class, but we focused on income. Looking at the overheads of the incomes of CEOs of companies made me think a lot about the show Secret Millionare. In this TV show, millianares, who are usually CEOs of companies, for a week live at poverty level, working low income jobs, and volunteering with non-profit programs. To not give up their true identity, they tell the other volunteers they work with they they are filming a documentarary. Its really interesting because people who are used to living a comfortable, wealthy life and experience it as someone who does not have those luxeries. At first, living a lower-income lifestyle is a culture shock, because within one city, there can be such a contrast between the social classes. but from the episodes I've seen, the millionares really gain a lot from the experience. At the end of the week, the millionares donate tens of thousands of dollars to the organizations they worked with.

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