The Worst form of Inequality is to try to make equal things equal”
--Aristotle
Over the past generation inequality has become a big issue in our society. Whether you are rich or poor, born here or immigrant, high class or middle class, inequality will find its own way to you some how. Here we should stop and ask ourselves why should we care about high and rising inequality? The answer to this question is in these three articles, “Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs “by Shayan Zadeh, “Confronting Inequality” by Paul Krugman, and “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland. These three articles have discussed the inequality issue from three different point of views in three different and unique ways.
Did you ever think about how immigrants …show more content…
This question goes through mostly all the people’s mind in the United States now. In the article “Confronting Inequality”, Paul Krugman explains why that difference is a concern. Middle class in the United states is overreaching themselves and make lots of effort just to give their kids more opportunities. Lots of middle class people are buying houses that they can't afford, so that their children will be joining a good school so that their children can have a better life and more opportunities, but on the other hand the rich society are building up their own world far away from the middle class people and of course That shows the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor which leads to the growing gap and difference in social equality. In this article the author used lots of comparison methods to show the difference between the poor and the wealthy society. He also used some facts and diagrams to convince his audience with his case (Krugman …show more content…
Average wage have been flat for almost a decade. The quality of available jobs is decreasing so fast, with a shift toward part-time and contingent work. while the Great Recession increased these movements and added a shocking loss of housing wealth, the issue goes further back and are far more universal. In 1970s, the united state saw the growth of the country's middle class, with lots of job opportunities and good economic states that create business opportunities. Later on step by step that great middle class started to die out. In the article “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland, the author discussed the factor that resulted of the failure of the middle class, he also said that the decline of the middle class resulted from the failure of the government policies, the failure of government to protect the interests of regular Americans to achieve and hold onto a middle-class standard of living. In the article, the author was so clever about his title because the title has that attention-getting element. Also he used lots of fact and dates to make the audience on his side (MacClelland
--Aristotle
Over the past generation inequality has become a big issue in our society. Whether you are rich or poor, born here or immigrant, high class or middle class, inequality will find its own way to you some how. Here we should stop and ask ourselves why should we care about high and rising inequality? The answer to this question is in these three articles, “Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs “by Shayan Zadeh, “Confronting Inequality” by Paul Krugman, and “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland. These three articles have discussed the inequality issue from three different point of views in three different and unique ways.
Did you ever think about how immigrants …show more content…
This question goes through mostly all the people’s mind in the United States now. In the article “Confronting Inequality”, Paul Krugman explains why that difference is a concern. Middle class in the United states is overreaching themselves and make lots of effort just to give their kids more opportunities. Lots of middle class people are buying houses that they can't afford, so that their children will be joining a good school so that their children can have a better life and more opportunities, but on the other hand the rich society are building up their own world far away from the middle class people and of course That shows the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor which leads to the growing gap and difference in social equality. In this article the author used lots of comparison methods to show the difference between the poor and the wealthy society. He also used some facts and diagrams to convince his audience with his case (Krugman …show more content…
Average wage have been flat for almost a decade. The quality of available jobs is decreasing so fast, with a shift toward part-time and contingent work. while the Great Recession increased these movements and added a shocking loss of housing wealth, the issue goes further back and are far more universal. In 1970s, the united state saw the growth of the country's middle class, with lots of job opportunities and good economic states that create business opportunities. Later on step by step that great middle class started to die out. In the article “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland, the author discussed the factor that resulted of the failure of the middle class, he also said that the decline of the middle class resulted from the failure of the government policies, the failure of government to protect the interests of regular Americans to achieve and hold onto a middle-class standard of living. In the article, the author was so clever about his title because the title has that attention-getting element. Also he used lots of fact and dates to make the audience on his side (MacClelland