Case Study: Social Inequality
Stop worrying about it. Do it for this instead.
In recent weeks I have read many news, articles and even a book about income inequality in society. The main idea of these exhibitions is that from the beginning of the societies there is a concentration of resources in a portion of society, a circumstance that has worsened to the point where it is projected that by 2030 1% of the population will own two-thirds of the global wealth.
There are even studies that assure that in 2017 it was 82% of the wealth that went into the hands of that minimum portion of the world population.
The approximation of that idea is wrong from the beginning
It is true that inequality is extreme, but this is not necessarily a problem. Because in reality it does not matter the number of billionaires, but the number of people who, even in the middle of 2018, live in poverty.
We should not be obsessed with the idea that every dollar that reaches the hands of the rich is a dollar that is taken from a poor person.
The global wealth has no fixed portions, that is, it is not a finite number that is divided into the entire world population.
A better world does not need equality, it needs dignity
Instead of putting so much effort into creating new taxes to reduce personal wealth or looking for ingenious ways to “redistribute” income, you have to use all that energy to focus on what is really important: that all people enjoy a minimum of dignity in their daily life.
This is to have financial security, access to health and education to have tools and resources to get out of the place where they are and receive a higher quality of life.
For me it would be a better objective to have a society that is differently worthy to have an equally poor one.
To think that all people have the same level of income is to assume that we all have the same needs, the same aspirations and the same priorities.
And without saying that each work has different value, we can not think of an egalitarian society if all lives are different and each person contributes in different measures to the economy of a nation.
True equality is that all people are valued in the same measure, that is, it is natural for someone who has great responsibilities to obtain more income than someone who has less responsibility.
Conclusion
According to the International Monetary Fund, some 702 million people live in what is called extreme poverty, meaning that they do not satisfy basic and vital needs, such as access to drinking water, housing or healthcare.
It is the responsibility of the rest of the population to fight for the inclusion of this portion of the world population in what is a dignified life.
We must make sure that we can all have the same opportunities, not the same results, we live in an infinitely diverse world, and that way we must continue.
But we all have to start from the same place, from the moment a baby is born he must have at his disposal all that is necessary so that he can develop in conditions, having all the tools so that he can have a normal life, without deficiencies and with the possibility to be what it wants to be.
