The Intersection of Race and Class
Wealth divides. Because once wealth exists, its opposite has to exist. That is how it works - nothing can exist without its opposite. So wealth creates poverty. Wealth divides people.
There will always be a wealth gap, but the reasons for its existance change. As of now all of history is responsible for it, so history is responsible to the fullest extent. Contemporaty society is also responsibe for the wealth gap. Society is built on money, and with money we have wealth, and with wealth we have poverty.
But what can be done? To make the gap smaller, we use taxes, taxing the rich more than the poor. But people object to that, it doesn’t make sense - the more money you make the more you lose? It seems like if one works hard one should be rewarded.
The problem is some have to work harder than others to get the same reward. I guess to solve the problem something has to be done to equalize the amount of work that everyone has to do to acieve that reward. The people that don’t work hard won’t get rewarded, and the people that do, will. But that’s another problem, because, some people don’t work hard, get themselves into a situation where they have to work hard, and then have children. The children begin in the situation that the unhardworkers were left in, and then must work harder to get out of it.
The solution lies in providing all children an equal platform to begin on. But this is hard, isnt it?
