Wealth condensation

lazy, they work so hard in order to get out their situation and live a good life. If poverty is painful, why do we have a high rate of poverty? The poor people deserve to also have something to depend on, besides what is the difference between the poor and rich? Everyone is still a human being, whether poor or rich, so why are the poor getting poorer and the rich are getting richer? It is because of the society we live in today, the rich are getting richer because they believe that poverty is…

Thomas Robert Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, and David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation attempt to explain the newly integrated world while criticising the mercantilist ideas that the European countries had adopted during this period of time. The contrast between mercantilism and classical economists focuses on wealth being tied to gold vs. exchanging goods of value through trade. These early economists…

The quip that, while man was born free but everywhere is in chains, attempts to trace and explain how the civilized man has evolved from the natural man (Cress and Rousseau). Accordingly, the natural man limitation and greatest asset is his body. The body serves both as an essential tool for surviving the day to day upheavals while also remaining a tool for safeguarding man’s life. Knowing neither good nor evil, the natural man is free from moral restrictions. As such, the natural man is as free…

Do you really know the difference between rich and poor? Some cannot even imagine that the rich man can spend a year income of a poor man, on one toy. Well these are difference in our society that the author Toni Cade Bambara, wants the reader and character in the short story called The Lesson to realize. “Her short stories best capture people struggling in a day-to-day existence, trying to survive in society, but doing it together. Capitalistic society is what Bambara’s characters are fighting…

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay When families come upon hard times, every family reacts differently. A prime example of these differences are the Ewells and the Cunninghams in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The Ewells and the Cunninghams are large, white families in the mid-1900’s. They have many similarities but their differences are severe and the reasons behind this is in heads of the houses. As said before, both the Ewells and the Cunninghams are big, white families. Both are…

were uncommon (Lapsansky-Werner 347-352). The American economy prospered, especially with all the wealthy businessmen, but the Industrial Revolution was just a facade of prosperity known as the “Gilded Age.” On the surface America and its economic wealth appeared shiny, new, and alluring, but underneath its mask was poverty and corruption that ran through the very heart of the country (Mintz). The term “Gilded Age” was and is synonymous with the Industrial Revolution and in 1890, 11 million…

THE PEARL It is thought that money and wealth always brings happiness, and in many cases this is true. You can buy almost anything with it, pay off your taxes on time, and in some situations even alter the law. Now, let’s say you couldn’t pay for the hospital bill for your dying infant, and you needed the money quickly but your job didn’t pay enough. Now let’s say an inanimate object worth millions of dollars showed up right in front of you, you would probably take it and keep it. In the…

The Life You Can Save is a novel published by Peter Singer in 2009. Singer tries to get his readers to consider doing something more to help others. He brings up the question of what obligation do we owe to those in extreme poverty. He has several scenarios laid out each different but mostly having to do with sacrificing something of yours or someone’s life. One scenario he brings up in the beginning is that you’re running late to work and you see a toddler flailing about in the water. Most…

Recently the Authoritarian State surpassed Japan in economy. With the government's censoring on media, western countries are unaware of the real China. While it appears that the Chinese economy is doing well and the country seems to be prospering, there are many internal problems within China. All these problems are addressed in the book From the Dragon’s Mouth written by Ana Fuentes. The book features ten stories about real people that each address a different complication. Fuentes expresses…

Different from Wang’s literati arguments, Yan Fu successfully offered his scientific explanation of the need of change. Yan Fu’s unique interests and standpoint is the advanced western thought of Darwin and Spence on Evolution of specie, “The idea is that people and things exist in profusion, surviving on what the natural environment provides, but when they encounter others, people and things struggle over the means of survival” (De Bary 646). For surviving, species need to compete with other…