Plump Man Analysis

The third picture descripts the plump man in a suit and a crowd of people with several human races are sitting on the seesaw. The man is wearing the suit which represents his higher position and high standard of his life and the bag of money is the private property he owns. The numbers of percentage are shown on their clothes. The crowd is labeled 99 percent and the man is labeled 1 percent. This is a ratio of rich people and poor people in the world and the source indicates the richest one percent own more than the other 99 percent put together. Economic equality is significant in collective ideologies. The government supports this idea and attempt to secure fairness and equality for all workers. Canadian government promotes the policy of progressive taxation in order to redistribute wealth. The source supports the idea of socialism however; it is critiquing that the government`s regulation and control for a sake of …show more content…
These people tend to support of the idea of individualism and strongly believe that people should meet the personal goal before collective goal. The source is not in favor of extreme capitalism, therefore the man is drawn with arrogant and rude attitude. Furthermore, the bag of money is exaggerated to criticize how much wealth are owned by only few wealthy individuals. These properties can be used for social services for one in need. However, the balloon shows a word, “What?”. This strongly support that wealthy individuals who are extreme capitalism are only pursuing their own good and not caring about the fact of 99% of remaining population are struggling with poverty. The selfish capitalists are not obeying social contrast and if they keep pursuing just for their own benefits, economic equality cannot be achieved. The source is opposing the injustice use of individual freedom and promoting the viewers to support the ideal collectivism to bring the fairness and equality