Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Is rising inequality in America exaggerated?
This article illustrates the effort into seeing what is the real inequality in the United States. The factors taken into consideration are the, "impact of one of the usual suspects—immigration, trade, de-unionisation, education, executive pay." Almost very country in the world has some level of inequality, yet, the US seems to have the most concern about it. This may be just our proximity to the situation as it is natural to view people as different even though we are all created equal. What policies is the US government taking into consideration when it has larger issues to deal with?
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I believe that inequality in America isn't as bad as it is made out to be, but I still think that considering how advanced the United States perceives itself to be, our rate of inequality is still unnecessarily high. Some consider poverty to be violation of a human rights.
Inequality in the United States is in fact quite high when compared to other developed nations. I think it is incorrect to claim that we are more concerned about inequality than other nations - many European nations are in fact quite obsessed with it. The difference is that European nations look at equality in terms of results or the "ends" - what does everyone end up with? Americans focus more on equality of opportunity or the means - did everyone have the access to tools that would allow them to reach the same income level? When you approach inequality from this philosophic stance it is bound to end with higher inequality than when you attempt to actually give everyone around the same resources.
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