The ideas of Astyk and Newton in The Rich get Richer, and the Poor Go Hungry, are will formed and relatable. However, our society is made up of a unstated hierarchy where the rich are at the top and the poor at the very bottom. We are not making any progress to change this system, it’s easy to argue that it probably is never going to change and “it [is] nearly impossible to figure out whether what we are doing is destructive or regenerative” (Elements of Arguments 517.) The more prosperous society gets the wider the gap between rich and poor get. Many argue that the rich should “share wealth” and for those of us in the middle to lower class, that statement doesn’t seem like much of a stretch especially if the thing most desired by the poor