I don't get any sense that the author is portraying the rich as people who exploit the poor. Mantsios argues that race, economic birth status, and luck are all factors, but the idea of the rich keeping the poor, poor isn't apparent in his essay. I think people, maybe including Mantsios, do assume this. I know that I personally do. No matter what the occasion might be when someone has a status of any sort higher than yours, naturally you look to them for aid, yet when the help isn't always enough the blame falls into the hands of the successful. So naturally we are inclined to believe poverty is a result of the wealthy not caring.

Mantsios has also made a credible argument when stating that our idea of american opportunity is only a facade. I value his use of numbers, when someone plasters a solid figure on the page I am much more inclined to agree with it. He becomes a credible source when he incorporates multiple statistics and uses accurate data to support the idea that these windows for success are consistently open. He addresses the notions of our country's opportunities, in reality don't exist at all. America is the land of promises, where if you have the drive to do something it is always attainable. How can a nation promise this? We can't.