Rashbrooke discusses that inequality society often associate with the large income gap, as the result wealthy people feel more power to overcome people in poverty. The difference between rich and poor has widen to its point where the fundament of human is slowing become non-exist. The struggle with income inequality can be demonstrate by Thomas Law applying to society perspective of individuals’ ethnicity, birth place and financial ethic. People who understand the sociological ideal of income inequality with the society economic status, will enables more awareness to change the issue and standard of individual’s life.
Main Points
The distance between the rich and the poor is growing further apart, with the rich having 3 times more …show more content…
Defining inequality
- Income is discuss as the amount a household spend after taxes been paid.
- Income rates is determine by individual’s differences, it can influence and limited people living choice.
Unequal impacts
- Maori people has less advantage in receiving quality help services than Pakeha people.
- Maori people quality of life is reflective by the way they are being treated in public
- Gender equality has been a huge problem in New Zealand over a long period of time.
- Women are more likely to have low-paid job with large proportion of Maori, Pacific and immigrate woman.
- Ethnicity, places you are born or newly arrived foreign people all contributes to the fact income inequality has shape our society.
Low income matter to people that are unemployed or having not enough money to live by, they often don’t meet the nutrients guidelines or own any essential items.
Income determines the problem not the way individual budgeting. Poverty can also take away individuals dignity, their voice in society, their rights and opportunity.
Understand how individual’s income rate can shape up individual’s future and to the society as a