Material well-being is one of the criteria used to identify the social status of the individual in a society. In general, material well-being depends on salary. Commonly, the wage rate depends on the type of job the person would occupy. Therefore, as people perform different functions, this can cause a wage gap and consequently social inequality with respect to material well-being in society. The works of Karl Marx and Robert B. Reich cover the issue of financial inequality between poor and rich populations in a global context. Both authors described the current conditions of rich people differently and made different predictions about their future. From Marx's point of view, the richest in a society is the bourgeoisie, owners of the means of production who exploit the work of the proletariat. (Marx, p.36, 59) According to Reich, the richest in society are the symbolic analysts compared to the routine producers and personal servants. (Reich, p.1) In the “Communist Manifesto” Marx stated that the conditions of existence and prosperity of the bourgeoisie will ultimately be directed towards the destruction of the bourgeoisie as a class. (Marx, p.34-35) These essential conditions create a series of destructive consequences for the bourgeoisie. Marx emphasized that property relations, the expansion of production and trade induced by the constant revolution of production, which are essential characteristics of bourgeois society, lead to unfavorable results for the bourgeoisie. (Marx, p.33) On the contrary, Reich states that symbolic analysts are in high demand in the world and it is quite possible that this trend will continue or that the rich will continue to get richer. (Reich, p.28) This article will be based primarily on Marx's ideas regarding the specific conditions that contribute to the situation where... halfway through the paper... rumments ultimately lead to the development of the proletariat. The proletariat is the weapon produced by these conditions against the bourgeoisie. (Marx, p.33-35) Marx's entire work, the “Communist Manifesto”, is basically an ideology that condemns the entire bourgeois society and wealthy people. Therefore Marx places the richest people in the worst position in society as a defeated class. In contrast, Reich did not consider the poor and the rich as antagonistic classes, but simply examined their position and conditions in society separately. Therefore, Reich argues that symbolic analysts or the richest people in society continue to get richer only compared to routine workers and in-person servers. (Reich, p.1, 28) The arguments of both authors concern social inequality with respect to the wage gap in society and attempted to evaluate the conditions of each representative of different strata of society.