Wealth condensation

Economic Justice is something that is crucial to the way society works today. Therefore it can be evaluated by deontology. This is because each citizen has a duty to economic justice, a right to earn money in order to provide, and consequences for not contributing or not providing. Deontology works best when evaluating economic justice because it focuses on the right and duties, as well as, the consequences. Deontology pertains because economic justice is about citizen’s right to be involved in…

Fitzgerald’s critiques the true value of wealth during the 1920s by portraying how the characters use their fortune to shapes how one must live their everyday lives. Throughout the entire novel, Gatsby strived to upgrade his impoverished lifestyle to gain acceptance from Daisy. Though he achieved his success, it was still not enough to win Daisy over. Gatsby’s had not changed his true identity, he was influenced by his wealth to do things he normally would not do; “Gatsby had turned out alright…

With revolutions coming to and Spain no longer having control in was a start of a new age in Latin American domestic policy. It was time for all those countries that had achieved independence to make it on their own. That was the point of those bloody revolutions, to finally get autonomy from the governments like Spain that used countries like Columbia to enrich themselves while paying no attention to the peoples of those countries. Things did not go as planned as the newly independent…

Some politicians such as Bernie Sanders have commented on this issue. Sander’s has spoken out about income inequality and how we need to redistribute wealth in America. He also has a page on his website to inform people about income inequality (Sanders). Income inequality is now becoming a largely debated issue within the United States. Not only politicians but also the working poor themselves are taking…

Raising the Minimum Wage in America Millions of American employees are working countless hours every week to earn inadequate wages that result in many families to live in poverty or depending on paycheck to paycheck. Bernie Sanders has the right approach when he quotes, “the current federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.” It is time for a change so the American population needs better wages, the American population should increase the minimum wage to benefit every American business and the…

““Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of a man never dies. White people had it hard and black people had it harder than that, because what are the table scraps of…

We’ve all been told “money can’t buy happiness”, but with new things being up for sale like the right to skip a line or use the HOV lane, it is becoming quite clear that it can. This raises one question: should it? What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel argues that the market triumphalism of the 1980s and 1990s spread market economics into places it didn 't belong, resulting in a demoralization of many goods and services. For decades, lines were the “great equalizer” of man. Regardless of how…

Gregory Mantsios in the “Class in America” explains how Americans do not appreciate and tolerate when others talk about class differences, not realizing through each negative criticism impacts the people. Mantsios points out that Americans find it useless in discussing where people falls under the class structures of society. Mantsios is right, my generation are always in a constant battle of who is better. From the stare downs, the looks from bottom up and vice versa. Even in a cultural sense…

The Declaration of independence contained the phrase “all men are created equal”, which was written by Thomas Jefferson. As a reader the phrase “all men are created equal” means that all men no matter of color, social position, wealthy, financials status, and culture are all created equal to one another. That all men abide and follow the same law and that all men have the same rights as citizen. It also means that humans are naturally free to make their own choices. On the other hand, the phrase…

questions her interactions with and feelings for the working class. It also leads her to have a much deeper response to the lilies. The lilies represent an intersection between both the class and coming of age aspects of the story, signifying both the wealth of the Sheridan and Laura’s personal growth. While it only makes sense there would be flowers at a garden party, it is clear that Mansfield chose each one with great care as they each have a deeper…