Is the American Dream Still Alive? – Wealth Inequality Compared Among Nations
Last week – Canadian Members of Parliament brought up in important issue in their House of Commons…wealth inequality. A motion was agreed upon across Party lines that read: “This House notes the findings…that societies with smaller income differences between rich and poor have fewer health and social problems, such as teenage births, violence, mental illness and drug abuse; further notes that such societies have higher levels of trust between citizens and more social mobility; and therefore encourages the Government to promote policies that reduce income inequality.” In other words – they’re going to do something about the richer getting richer and the poor getting poorer. So isn’t it about time we do the same?
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Everything in society is determined by a competing handful of elites. Have pluralist social advances made it possible for a commoner’s ascension to power elite status? How does one rise to the ranks of the ruling class? Is it even a meaningful goal? Can their values be influenced externally? What can we do to prosper as non-elite individuals, or how can we find meaning in a world run by the few?
My interests are to explore and clarify this system of elitism, while identify the players, discovering their origins, motives and values, and trying to decode their actions.
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