Inequality as a societal issue has been at the forefront of debate in the current day political theater. In this essay I will prove how economic class inequality is an expanding issue that is creating a divide between people within society and needs to be solved with political solutions instead of allowing this issue to subside naturally. The umbrella in which this issue has developed under is the growing globalist community that has started to envelop the world. The globalist agenda threatens the middle class the most because it is the primary contributor to the redistribution of jobs globally. Solving this expanding issue is one that will have to be done through several means of cultural and economic change back to the embrace of national
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In Geoffrey Garrett 's piece, Globalization 's Missing Middle, he describes how globalization efforts like the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have led to the elimination of the middle class (Garrett 204). NAFTA was a large contributor to the middle class jobs, in for example the United States, leaving to historically third world countries such as China and India (Garrett 204). These growing economies had large populations with minimal jobs so, as manufacturing positions that require no prerequisites, flooded third world markets, these countries were given the opportunity to gain a strong economic foothold in the global market (Garrett 204). The modernization of globalization lead to the demise of uneducated middle class jobs within first world, high paying, western societies and injected them into third world, low income societies (Garrett 205). To fix this economic discrepancy and to bring the middle class back into the competitive economic markets of the world, there will have to be political policies created to remove countries from globalist trade deals like NAFTA or TPP. Ross Perot 's stated in 1992 “NAFTA would make a giant sucking sound by drawing jobs out of the United States (Garrett 201)” so, leaving those agreements would …show more content…
However, this economic class can be restored through the implementation of government policies that will change how society functions on both an economic and cultural level. Economically societies would have to be reverted back to the nationalistic focuses of the past and globalist initiatives like NAFTA and TPP would have to be removed to allow the middle class jobs, that were relocated, to move back to their original place in the west. Secondly education would have to be reformed and embraced as a priority that has enormous benefits to the populous. This will allow workers to compete in high skilled work environments instead of having to rely on low paying jobs that do not require education. The middle class is something that can once again be a reality and the unequal divide between the lower and upper classes can be bridged with these changes to western
In Geoffrey Garrett 's piece, Globalization 's Missing Middle, he describes how globalization efforts like the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have led to the elimination of the middle class (Garrett 204). NAFTA was a large contributor to the middle class jobs, in for example the United States, leaving to historically third world countries such as China and India (Garrett 204). These growing economies had large populations with minimal jobs so, as manufacturing positions that require no prerequisites, flooded third world markets, these countries were given the opportunity to gain a strong economic foothold in the global market (Garrett 204). The modernization of globalization lead to the demise of uneducated middle class jobs within first world, high paying, western societies and injected them into third world, low income societies (Garrett 205). To fix this economic discrepancy and to bring the middle class back into the competitive economic markets of the world, there will have to be political policies created to remove countries from globalist trade deals like NAFTA or TPP. Ross Perot 's stated in 1992 “NAFTA would make a giant sucking sound by drawing jobs out of the United States (Garrett 201)” so, leaving those agreements would …show more content…
However, this economic class can be restored through the implementation of government policies that will change how society functions on both an economic and cultural level. Economically societies would have to be reverted back to the nationalistic focuses of the past and globalist initiatives like NAFTA and TPP would have to be removed to allow the middle class jobs, that were relocated, to move back to their original place in the west. Secondly education would have to be reformed and embraced as a priority that has enormous benefits to the populous. This will allow workers to compete in high skilled work environments instead of having to rely on low paying jobs that do not require education. The middle class is something that can once again be a reality and the unequal divide between the lower and upper classes can be bridged with these changes to western