The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

is not fair if it is only advantageous for the rich and not the poor. Instead of giving the poor population, the system works to take money away from the poor. As they always, in these system “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” In our case, the market-machine system is a pyramid figure. The wealthiest people on the smallest triangle at the very top, and the poorer people at the larger triangle (the base of the pyramid) supporting the rich. The video explains that as one’s social…

by the FAO in 2007, there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone and the world food production rate increases every year(FAO). If this is so, how then can we, as a species, justify the death of an innocent child because she couldn’t get enough to eat? How can we sit comfortably at our dinner tables while some 780 million people go to bed hungry? Perhaps the most pertinent question is, whose responsibility is it? Ultimately, it is the civil responsibility of a country’s…

for state owning the important parts. Sinclair wanted a socialist government because everyone had equal opportunity. Although most readers did not realize it, his beliefs actually embraced the American dream. He felt like American capitalism would get in the way of our freedom that our founding fathers fought for. Sinclair based his argument against capitalism on his belief that capitalism violated essential…

“For Richer, For Poorer”, The Economist (2012) is about the growing income inequality, which is one of the global biggest social, economic and political challenges, It also examines how this growing inequalities create a wider income gap between rich and poor and suggests some solutions to resolve it. The article mentions, to give the income inequality background that the concern of inequality existed long time ago and became better with the time in the way that the live standards of the poor in…

Middle Class Tornado (An Analysis of Robert B. Reich’s, Why the Rich and the Poor, and its Effects on the Society) There have been drastic debate about the different social and personal issues that have come with the recession that the United States in general has been experiencing, but also the recession that has been affecting countries around the world. This global recession has come from the recession in the U.S. as it is the most, or at least one of the most influential countries in the…

The question of would you, as a social scientist, predict that the discrepancy between the 1% and a 99% is going to get worse over time is indeed a challenging and thought provoking question. Many of us trying to answer this question, tend to focus on salary. However, wages only make up a portion of the income of the upper echelon, particularly the mega-rich. Much of their income comes from capital gains on stocks and real estate or from the sale of businesses. Given that the 99% are focused on…

novel. Not only is it a dystopian novel but it also gives us a view into what our world might look like in the near future. In Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker the world has developed a fine line between the rich and the poor in which the rich people live the life that everyone would love to live while the poor live in…

Today the difference in the income of distribution of wealth and income is vastly different. The rich have gotten richer, and the working class has gotten poorer. In this essay we will find out why and how this is a problem. One way of looking at measuring inequality is to look at the earnings of people at the top vs. the typical worker in the middle. According to InequalityForAll.com, In 1978 the top people in the United States made $393,682 and the typical worker in the middle made $48,302.”…

quite high gap between the poor and the rich. The causes of poverty are innumerable, including overpopulation, lack of education, bad government, and countless more. People have a tendency to blame the poor for living in such state going back to the same causes time after time, but the global issue that cause poverty are often less discussed or better said not mentioned at all. Poverty is a global economic problem that has arisen from global change, influenced by richer nations, government and…

In Greg Mantsios’ essay, “Class in America-2012”, Mantsios depicts different aspects of social class. It is fair to say that Mantsios is a believer that the rich exploit the poor, and that the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer. In his essay, there are four myths about class in America, ten realities of class in America, and three different profiles of people’s lives since birth, all of whom have different social class levels. Social class categorizes people into upper-call,…