Sunday, November 1, 2009

How does global inequality affect our lives as individuals?


How do we measure inequality and what is an accurate method to measure it? I think it does not matter…. It is obvious… there is a big gap and a very clear growing inequality between world citizens. In my opinion, there are different aspects of inequality and consequently different effects, Economy, morality, and education.
According to “Branko Milanovic” one of the lead economists in the “World Bank” “Inequality has increased between nations over the last half century (richer countries have generally grown faster than poorer countries)”. As we read in the text book “Introduction to Sociology” Capitalism is growing fast across the world. The affect of Capitalism even in China makes big differences in individuals’ life directly. But Capitalism itself can not make equality in the world. As the text book mentions, “almost 50% of the countries around the world are Technology Adaptors”. These countries usually have old fashion cultures that are mostly based on punishment vs. encouragement and do not provide a proper environment for creativity and innovation for their people. Capitalism can grow based on freedom and human’s creativity otherwise it will go to the wrong side of the road and will be misleading for people in those societies and it is happening in some of the eastern countries especially middle east. This type of semi capitalism happens in the wrong culture base and encourages people to make money without being creative and innovative. It makes a lot of consumers with a lot of false competition. This also can lead some groups toward war and terrorism and put people’s life in danger around the world. Technology innovators spend to be prepared to defend their countries against the war. That money could be spent in researches and health insurance, education, and etc to make happier life for individuals. So we see when people in some part of the world don’t have enough facilities and common wealth to be innovative for their own countries would get involve with other countries in a wrong way and make a lot of troubles for everybody. Dictator governments such as China, Iran, Jordan, and such can make life measurable for their own people and other people around the world. Dictatorships can survive if and only if people are not educated enough too fight with it. People need to be educated to learn how to be confident and creative. People around the worl deserve for that type of education. Our goal should be making a map all the same color to live peacefully and happy.


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