The media portrays the upper class as a goal to be achieved. Obtaining wealth and material goods will bring you a happy life. The only way to move forward is to imitate the rich and powerful and live vicariously through them (Kendall 316). The media's focus on the upper class prevents people from living their lives for themselves. Instead, they are persuaded to adopt a lifestyle that is truly beyond their means. Kendall states: "Largely through marketing and advertising, television has promoted the myth of the classless society, offering on the one hand images of the realized American dream in which everyone can become rich and on the other part suggesting that the lived experience of this lack of The class hierarchy was expressed in our equal right to buy whatever we could afford. Exaggerated visions of the rich and successful in America are widely presented on television. Which gives a false idea of ​​what happiness, wealth and material possessions can bring (Kendall 317). The poor and homeless are at the bottom of the class structure and are often overlooked, ignored, and presented only as deserving of sympathy. They are stereotyped as people with problems such as drugs or alcohol (Kendall 318). Kendall goes on to explain that the middle class is considered the "working class" and is