Argued that the improvement of the working class benefits society as a whole, which is evident in the period from 1945 to 1975, when the U.S. economy flourished while economic inequality declined. Unfortunately, Reich noted that the United States has instead slipped into a vicious cycle. Even just one look at the statistics on economic inequality in the United States is already disheartening. The lowest fifth of American households had an average income of $11,552, while the highest fifth enjoyed an average of $170,844, and the richest five percent reached nearly three hundred thousand dollars (US Bureau of Census 2012). This economic inequality in the United States is not God-given, but produced by the way this society is shaped. In this consumption-based economy, where goods and services are the cornerstones, our working class shares the smallest percentage of wealth due to their endless work in the manufacturing and service sectors. So those who keep the gears here are literally becoming the gears and losing their rights to the American dream. Barbara Ehrenreich is the perfect example. He described his attempt to live with not one, but two working-class jobs.