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The access that the rich and famous lifestyle shows, is an example of a huge gap between the rich and poor. Throughout history it has been shown the more wealth and status you have the better your life is overall. It angers me to know that they are able to pay a fie for crimes I would be sentence to jail time. To me it is crazy that laws don’t apply to them the same it would for the average citizen. I’ve seen countless stories about celebrities killing people in car accident and they receive no punishment for the accident. They feel like the rules don’t apply to them because they receive special treatment for everything that they do. A recent look at this is the scandals and how many of the people involved feel as if they did nothing wrong. You can also see the same outcome in the Jussie Smollet case where many city organizations weren’t even informed of the outcome until the public found out.

The white-collar advice website is another example of privilege of the rich. A normal middle-class citizen does not have the money to spend for that kind of advises. Many people face financial problems just fighting a regular case in court. A DWI can cost at least 10000 dollars once everything is said and done. The website just shows another way people use wealth and advise to get by the system.

There was nothing else that surprised me about this podcast. We know that people for years and throughout the ages have taken advantage of the system through wealth. The fact that they flipped so fast is not surprising. They have no pride in what they are doing and know that they are wrong. They want to be able to keep some of the wealth they obtain so will do as they must.