The Article focuses on inequality in the world’s two largest
democracies, India and the United States.
In both counties there is a growing gap between the poor and the supper
rich, at the same time some social inequalities have started to decline. In India certain historically disadvantaged
groups are now politically assertive, and in America discrimination against minority
groups is declining. The articles tells
about how the rich are rich because they have access to better schools, health
care, nutrition and social support than the poor. While there are adverse neighborhood effects
for poor children in inner cities in the U.S and in Indian villages can have similar
or worse effects on the poor. The
answer to improving this inequality is to improve education, create more jobs,
and increase productivity, however the U.S, and India neglect education for the
poor and infrastructure. The answer is
because the Rich do not use these public services. In India a few hitherto subordinate social
groups have begun to enter the political and economic elite but instead of changing
conditions for the poor they adopt values of the rich.
The world is always going to have changing inequalities. The inequalities from the rich and the poor
have only become more unequal because of the nature of how the Inequality gap
began to open. The more money someone
has the more power they have. Threw the
capitalist systems people have been able to become extremely wealthy and
powerful. Their children are born into an
ascribed status of super-rich and have many resources to achieve a higher
status. While for the poor it is the
exact opposite the are born into a poor ascribed status lacking the resources
to achieve higher status. The Rich can use their money to influence politicians
to pass laws and loosen restrictions that benefit themselves even if it is in
conflict of helping the poor. Improving
public education where most of the poor are is not at the top of the list for
the rich because their children aren’t in public schools. If the poor can’t get better educations the
inequality gap will keep widening.
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