Social Justice In The 21st Century

Social justice is the equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant (Pachamama Alliance, 2018). Social justice was originally aimed at the poor who needed resources to be distributed more equally. It was during this period when the poor did not receive as many necessary items compared to the wealthy. This caused the rich to become the favorite when it came resources. The poor got what was the rich didn’t want or could not finish. Comprehensibly, the rich end up being a priority when it comes to resources. The government is playing favorites with the elite and has no intention of changing this thought any time soon. The elite has excessive amounts of money that they can throw around. Meanwhile, the middle and lower class rarely have any money left over once they paid their bills. Yet, the government is obviously saying that this kind of treatment of playing favorite with the elite is acceptable. This kind of treatment should stop. The middle and lower class need more help than the elite.
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In England, the rich are also getting away with committing heinous crimes, while the poor get very harsh punishment for minor crimes. This types of treatment has been going on for centuries all over the word, not just in the United States. England is home to thousands of elite citizen who commit tax fraud every year. These rich English citizen are rarely ever punished Anthony Bond states in an article that a company called HSBC has been accused of helping hundreds of thousands of wealthy customers avoid tax and hide £78 billion (Anthony Bond 2015). This situation lacks details on whether or not HSBC or its clients were ever punished for their crime. It is assumed that the wealth account owners were given a warning and was never really punished for their