What did you think when you read this quote, from the text, Sociology in Our Times: The Essentials, "Given the current economic situation, it is difficult to predict the future of the U.S. system of stratification? What will happen with the great economic imbalance in the United States? Economist and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (2010: 146) has summed up the problem as follows: None of us can thrive in a nation divided between a small number of people receiving an ever-larger share of the nation's income and wealth, and everyone else receiving a declining share" (Kendall, D., 2018, p. 215). What impact does the ever-changing economy play on social stratification