- Which statistic on wealth inequality in the US (discussed on p. 29) made the biggest impression on you? Explain why?
- What could be some of the implications of living in a society that has such huge wealth inequalities? Do you see this dynamic getting played out in everyday life in our society? How so? Example?
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In the U. S. , the top 1% of households hold more wealth than the bottom 90% combined, showcasing extreme wealth inequality. This concentration of economic power highlights disparities in opportunity and social mobility. It raises concerns about fairness, justice, and the democratic system’s health. The inequality challenges equal opportunity ideals and emphasizes the necessity for policies addressing systemic barriers to wealth distribution, illustrating how a small elite can influence economic policies to the detriment of the majority.
Living in a society with substantial wealth inequalities can cause decreased social mobility, political influence, social fragmentation, and fitness disparities. Wealth attention hinders upward mobility, limits democratic participation, creates divisions, and correlates with fitness disparities. In ordinary life, those dynamics are glaring in schooling disparities, housing challenges, and unequal get entry to to offerings like healthcare. Wealthier regions frequently have better-funded schools, even as growing housing prices can displace lower-profits households via gentrification. Individuals with better earning have get entry to to non-public healthcare, even as lower-profits people depend on underfunded public offerings. These implications of wealth inequality form the reviews of people and communities, highlighting the want for a extra equitable society.
Living in a society where there is huge wealth inequalities causes many problems for those who aren’t as fortunate. Some of the problems that come from a huge gap in wealth inequalities are crime, politics, and Social division between different variety groups who make money and get their income in. A example I see in everyday life is how unfortunate people that are the lower income don’t have basic things like healthcare, which is a serious problem for at least 75% percent of people living in Low income areas, along with things that are out of their control, like eduction and political influence. This causes problems for the people who are not as wealthy due to the fact that they make also like to have an equal amount of same things as the wealthy Americans but won’t.