This tongue and cheek political cartoon is attacking how those who fall in the 1% have amassed so much wealth; the (pseudo) middle-class is so far away they can never reach this point. To some extent and in this perspective it shows the fallacy of the American Dream, since the ideal place among the 1% is not attainable, and the gap between in the rich and poor/middle-class grows. The distance between the two places also makes the middle class seem phantasmal to the 1%, almost as an attraction to be gazed upon. The 1% have no relation to the middle-class/poor and their struggles and yet try to sympathize with their struggles, as if the middle-class/poor were no different that an animal in a glass-caged zoo.
This tongue and cheek political cartoon is attacking how those who fall in the 1% have amassed so much wealth; the (pseudo) middle-class is so far away they can never reach this point. To some extent and in this perspective it shows the fallacy of the American Dream, since the ideal place among the 1% is not attainable, and the gap between in the rich and poor/middle-class grows. The distance between the two places also makes the middle class seem phantasmal to the 1%, almost as an attraction to be gazed upon. The 1% have no relation to the middle-class/poor and their struggles and yet try to sympathize with their struggles, as if the middle-class/poor were no different that an animal in a glass-caged zoo.
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