Alan: Truer words were never spoken... even at the most simple level. Even my working class rural and on-and-off public support-dependent students are flabbergasted by Domhoff's statistics about 1% of Americans controlling ~40% of all wealth with the next 19% controlling another 50% or more. Sadly, fewer are able to unpack the facts about white household median wealth being 10 times as high as median black and hispanic but at least most are set back a bit. This semester, out of 150 Intro students, despite my efforts to stress movements, collectives, communities and struggle, only two wrote about trying to work on these issues, about 40 said the government really needs to do something, 20 threw up their hands but said that this indicated how important it was that they work hard to get into the top 20%, 20 threw up their hands and said nothing was ever going to change and that they were screwed, and most of others - since it is a course they are taking as a distribution requirement - simply wrote a report on the article or got something down on paper.